Why is there a disconect between rightwingers and reality ?
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Well, you won't hear it from me.  In answer to your main question, if there WAS a connect between right wing and reality, you wouldn't have a right wing.  Or put another way, there are no reality sockets the right wing can plug into.  Not to to digress, but it also depends you how you define "reality."  War, economy, corruption and environment are very real, no matter what side of the ailse you're sitting on.
685711
Because most right-wingers are hypocrits. They are killing this country. And if another one is elected to office or to the supreme court, the country will be in the shitter very quickly.
1018614
I experience the same from the Left wing.  Cuts both ways...there are hateful people across the full spectrum and our job is to recognize it on both sides (so we don't become subject to marginalizations for showing subjectivity) and ignore them.\n\nI have received death threats from pacifists for editorials I have written about 9/11.  I have received physical threats in my classes for speaking against various topics.  The e-mail...never ending.  That is just the way some people think.  They are not smart enough to hold a debate and think that what they are doing will intimidate the other side enough to silence the other side.  The fact is this shows they do not know WHY they believe what they believe and thus are unable to intelligently defend what they believe.
949227
In the political spectrum, there is little difference between the two parties. It's more hype to keep the respective bases in line, as you state.
484836
I wasn't aware that fictional tv shows developed and cast by avowed leftists typically catered to right wing ideology. That would be a lot like the Christian Broadcast Network hosting Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, wouldn't it?
935396
how come people of all political stripes, left and right, have such a distorted view of the other?
94800
Mostly uninformed and unaware people with influence.  The intent behind Political Correctness is good, but everyone has heard about the paving of the road to Hades.\nTheir model of the way things work is very flawed.  I would have to call them the Reality Challenged or perhaps the Perceptively Differenced.\nI, for one, refuse to discuss falling into a “personhole” because someone left the cover off.  I do not care if they are offended.  I see this as their problem, not mine.
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Ultra-right wingers (not all conservatives) live in the past.  The ideal right-wingnut's world is 1950, with nuclear/military proliferation, women largely stuck at home baking pot roasts and popping out kids, and minorities keeping their place.\n\nThey're also angry hatemongers, always going for the jugular in the most inane, childish fashion.  Look at how popular Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Phyllis Schafly all are with the conservatives.  Combine these two facets and you've got a bunch of sore losers whose only delight is in rehashing old foes, when it's essentially pointless.\n\nMy $.02
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Don't despair.  All things in life are circular and cyclical. What does that mean?  Eventually the people with the greatest of political power/those in control will lose their status because of their success affords them more opportunity to fail and then they are thereby exposed.  The further things swing to right, the more they will eventually have to go to the left.  So, the more successful they are at advancing a far right extremist political agenda, the greater the eventual swing back to the left will be so maybe/probably one day National Health Care, equal marriage rights for all people, things which are tauted as extreme left positions will be seen as possible and fair.
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It is a red herring.  The Republican agenda of late seems to have origins deeply rooted in fascist ideology and several blogs and radio shows have recently made mention of this. Thus the Republican spin machine is trying to divert attention away from their own faults and accusing their perceived enemies as being fascist.  Classic Republican strategy, when you are guilty, accuse someone else.
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The way you have defined it, I don't think there are any "hardcore leftist- Liberals" anymore.\n\nIt sounds more like what you're trying to do is to strawman anyone who is not like you into supporting all those bizarre positions.
694654
I've been trying to figure this out for a long time now.  All I can say is the RIGHT WING media bias keeps on telling lies about the so called left wing bias over and over, figuring if they say it long enough people will believe it.  Kind of like Hitler did before WW2.  Anyway, there arent any journalists in the media, they are all controlled by the government.
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Oh god here comes the barrage of cliche "opposites attract" garbage answers.\n\nHave you ever really thought of what you're saying when you say "opposites attract?"\n\nSo you're saying a Left Wing Liberal and a Radical Republican would make the best pair?\n\nYou're saying that a stoned out hippie and a terrorist are perfect together?\n\nFor crying out loud people, think about what you're saying!\n\nI think people want what they lack in order to complete themselves and compliment each other where the other is lacking.
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Southern states there is inbreeding which makes for mental defect, we in the north are working, honest people that know that the Repuglicans are no more moral or upright then the democrats, but the repuglicans favor big business in every legislation, the tax cut for the very rich being an example. The democrats tend to want to help the poor and middle class. Like raising the minimum wages and such.
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You can make the same argument about the Conservatives being stuck in the 50's.  Each faction (Cons and Libs) are stereotyped into a certain ideology that is compared to a way of thinking or political movement of a past era.  I consider myself a moderate Republican.  As such, I have as much in common with the far left as I do with the far right.  To me, both factions are "behing the times".  We live in a rapidly changing world and Liberals need to realize, just as Conservatives do, that their views and ideology are no longer embraced by the majority of the country. \n\nAnd just to add a comment, Conservatives want your money just as much as Liberals...the difference is that Liberals want to give it to the poor and/or less fortunate via government programs wheras Conservatives want to give it to the poor and/or less fortunate via religious institutions.  Same goal, just different ways of doing it.
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The difference between the Left and the Right is that people on the Left have formed their political opinions scientifically--they assemble and analyze data and form conclusions based on it.  People on the Right just take whatever Rush Limbaugh makes up in his drug induced delusions as gospel, or believe whatever money grubbing corrupt crooked TV evangelists say.  The Right's economic policies were what produced the last and worst Great Depression, and their authoritarian politics are what produced the Russian, Chinese, French, Cuban, etc Revolutions.  They can not learn from history because if they could they would not be Rightists, they would support good old fashioned Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal Keynesian politics and economics.  At least their policies lead to collapse and disintegration, so at some point, when the Middle Class has been turned into ignorant starving peasants, the wealthy who run the Republican Party will realize, gee, we'd rather have customers who could afford to buy something, and the Rightist bull will be abandoned.
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I believe your hypothesis is flawed. Do you watch the news, read the newspaper, read blogs, political books,etc? Yep, you must believe what you are hearing. Where do you live? Do you think that the news might be biased where you are? When have you last heard a BBC newscast, or watched Al-Jazzerah? \nWhat is your definition of Progressive? If it is the Teddy Roosevelt definition, then you adhere to a more classical conservative approach. If you are comparing yourself to modern liberals, then you just need to call yourself that.\nU.S. politics is not divided, just people don't care about the close similarities they share. Even most Political Scientists believe there is an increased volatility in the world democracies, but they ain't asking the right questions. \nInstead of trying to label yourself, why not ask yourself why you believe what you do, and how important those beliefs are.\nIf your definition is hoping for change, then no, conservatives and pregressives are exactly the same. why do you believe conservatives don't question thier leaders? Who do you think are conservatives leaders anyway? Do you think people currently in elected positions are conservative?\nI am not trying to be insulting, just when labels start getting thrown around, it narrows the scope of a question beyond any redeemable answer, and just becomes an opportunity to posture. If you really want to find answers, open up a bit more.