(07-16-2018, 02:57 PM)pirkster Wrote: Repeat a lie enough, even when disproven, and it becomes "truth" to some regardless of reality.

As Scott Adams (yes, that Scott Adams) says:

Two Movies On One Screen

Again, when the left went off the extreme deep end and became far left, the natural response for some on the opposite side was to mirror their shift to form balance.  If neither can see how off base they are, they'll never realize how far back to center they need to travel to become rational again.  This radicalization began around 1994, with triangulation and demagoguery on the left who were in power at the time.  It magnified with moveon.org, then has grown exponentially since the denial that Bush won the 2000 election.  It's been no looking back since, with a complicit media feeding the false reality that has now given us Two Movies On One Screen.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.  The more radical the left gets, the further they double, triple down and more... things will only get worse for everyone in the middle of those who rise against their treachery.

Scott Adams is simply wrong about this. Nothing of note happened with the left or with the Democratic party in 1994. the right and the Republican party on the other hand, enter the contract with America phase. Newt Gingrich was the face of that effort of course but behind the scenes you'll find lots of archive videos of a young Paul Ryan arguing that from now on the Republican Party must be a party that promotes a unified ideology rather than each Congressman simply advocating for the interests of his district. This was the beginning of the end of earmarks, which wasn't necessarily bad. 
However, much more interesting from the perspective of someone who's trying to explain that we now watch the same thing on two different screens would be the emergence of Fox News in 1998.

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