Why are we so gullible?

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40. thanks for pointing to RW radio, which got going after reagan killed the fairness doctrine in 87

by the early 90s they had 600 stations for limbaugh who was used to pilot messaging for 1500 raddio stations - his dittoheads couldn't get through the call screeners to lick his ass so they learned to call the other hosts instead and eventually all rw blowhards and republican politicians had to follow the limbaugh lead/spin, etc. or get yelled at and lose their jobs

fox started about 10 years after in 96, basically as the cartoon cliff notes for talk radio. only radio can do the unchallenged repetition.

all the russians had to do was figure out how to use limbaugh, and probably have been since maybe as early as 2008 when limbaugh wouldn't support mccain until he picked palin over others, and manafort was his campaign cochair. in 2009 russian hackers and wikileaks were coordinated with limbaugh to create 'climategate' and sabotage obama at the copenhagen climate conference to keep putin rolling in fossil fuel profits.

limbaugh was perfect for selling lies to authoritarians. like trump they both lie with total royal sex-on-the-wrong-brain certitude. authoritarians need certainty more than liberals (authoritarianism is sometimes measured with the uncertainty avoidance index or UAI) for the cons certainty is more important than truth - the secret of authoritarian power.

a main limbaugh function that he was genius at was rationalizing the denial of reality that allows authoritarian leaders to create and sell certainty through absolutism, simplification, judgmentalism etc) to ease the fear their sex on the wrong brain followers get when faced with the infinite complexity and uncertainty of nature

cancel culture is just a more recent social media version of 'political correctness', a straw man limbaugh used for decades, yelling about some sensitive hippy that got noticed by the heritage foundation news watchers, turning molehiills into mountains, and howling basically about how terrible it was to be criticized for using the N-word, for instance. that shit from 1500 radio stations is the real cancel culture, and they are the real PC cops

hallelujah limbaugh croaked and central messaging is starting to fall apart. they can't replace him. dems shouldd take this opportunity to boycott rw radio until the ad industry has to break up the monopoly