Henry Payne for June 14, 2015

So, Henry, are you deliberately telling a Big Lie to help fool people, or are you simply one of the fools to which the Big Lie has been told?

That’s what always gets me about the self proclaimed conservatives. Are they truly delusional? Or is it more willful? Seems to me a combination. The “thought leaders” are sincere. And the minions are sincere. But the strategists and schemers are most assuredly insincere. They have their beliefs and their confirmation bias, but, like Lee Atwater, Rush Limbaugh, and Roger Ailes, they really make no attempt to square up reality with their beliefs. The so called left, on the other hand, seems incapable of defending itself with the same sort of slimy tactics. So the right wing beliefs get way more play than they deserve simply because they will say or do anything…just as this toon amply demonstrates.