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Last month, when CNN asked Rubio’s spokesman Alex Conant whether the senator believes Obama is “intentionally trying to destroy the country,” Conant said “absolutely.”
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I had a friend who listened to fox news and read the blaze and pretty much had been thoroughly manipulated by the right-wing noise machine. He mentioned that he thought Obama was deliberately hurting the country. It’s a common theme in the right-wing echo chamber. They really do believe it. I asked my friend what he thought Obama’s motivation to hurt the country was. That extremely simple and obvious question stumped him. He hadn’t thought about it (surprise!).
I have yet to hear what right wingers think Obama’s motivation for destroying the country would be. Even when I google it, I get a bunch of right-wing noise machine websites saying “here’s proof Obama is purposely destroying America,” but I get nothing on “why.”
The proof that he’s destroying America is all nonsense, of course, but I can see how somebody not very skeptical would fall for it. What I don’t understand is how they can get all those people to fall for the idea of him doing it on purpose without even providing at least some semi-plausible reason why Obama would want to do that. You apparently don’t have to answer such obvious questions if you’re really good at emotional manipulation.
If anybody reading this thinks Obama is deliberately destroying our country, I’d really be interested to hear what you think his motivation for that would be. I’m hoping to hear something reasonable, because I hate to think that such a large a segment of our population is so unquestioning that they could be so easily made to believe something so far-fetched, and with no explanation of why, even.
