Pretty clumsy wording. Sorry.
I had said a couple of months ago that the best article I had read this election season (now mercifully over, so at least we can be thankful for that) was this one by Leon Wolfe over at the conservative website RedState.com.
It is a clear-eyed examination of what has been going on in the pro-life movement over the past 40 years and how now-President-elect Donald Trump has played into it. (You’ll see plenty of stuff on this website that is against the liberal left, so it’s an equal-opportunity basher, as I have also claimed to be. And I hope it goes without saying that any website I link to can have those ridiculous sponsored stories top and/or bottom. I do wish that RS and National Review would get rid of them. Sigh.)
Ho-kay. Here’s the other best article (so there’s a tie), also from RedState. It’s fairly short, and I can’t really say anything about it myself that’s going to be any better than what the article itself says, so let me make just a few comments and then ask you, nay, beg you, to read it for yourself.
I’m mostly interested in what the author has to say in his point #3, so here’s a brief quotation:
Many [conservatives] considered anything positive reported about Obama to be automatically false, but more problematically many believed anything negative was automatically true. People vented their outrage about stories that were either made up entirely or were attempts at parody.
After I pushed back on some of the ridiculous forwarded e-mails I’ve gotten (which could usually be easily debunked with a few google clicks), I stopped getting them, for the most part. I would read this stuff and just roll my eyes. Barack Obama was going to take everyone’s guns away. (All you had to do with that one was to click on the link that was actually in the article itself to find out that he was supporting a plan to get weapons away from international terrorists.) Barack Obama got a dead person’s Social Security number. On and on. (I’m including only in parentheses the whole Birther and closet Muslim theories.) But, as I have said before, when you dribble away your credibility on such nonsense, and waste time and money on it, then you are giving people no reason to believe you when you are telling the truth. (“Boy Who Cried Wolf,” anyone?)
And allowing “your side” to get away with what you’d absolutely condemn in your opponents always, always, always comes back to bite you.
So read this article, and then ask yourself, “How credulous am I, when the tale I’m being told is along the lines I tend to believe anyway?”
“Three Reasons to Believe the Dumpster Fire Is Only Just Beginning”