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To be direct, all have incited the most diabolically violent and treasonous conduct in their audience. Regardless, each and all attempt to defend themselves, claiming they cannot be held responsible for the actions of others, yet a review of the facts and of the psychological and marketing examples just cited clearly indicts their exculpatory efforts as intentionally fraudulent.
They know exactly what they are doing, and are trying to achieve, what they were doing and the responses they hoped to secure from their audiences. These may be loathsome individuals, but they are neither commercially ignorant nor stupid. Besides, none of these behavior modification techniques are secrets known only to psychology professors and marketing PhDs. It’s all well known stuff.
Until the Supreme Court holds otherwise, which, given the present far-Right tilt of the Court, is highly unlikely, those who cacophonously scratch the bowels of humanity have a First Amendment right to do so. And everyone in America has the irreducible right to listen. But you know, each and every one of us has an absolute, concomitant right to decide who we will associate with on a friendly basis. The manner in which we employ the civil right says all that ever needs to be said of our individual moral composition. The old saw — You are who you hang with — is an unqualified truism.
When will it finally end? The venomous plants will wither and perish only after enough folks finally find that tiny grain of courage and decency and integrity to tell their GOP-Fox News-watching-rightwing radio listening associate “The party and the philosophies you identify with make my skin crawl. You’re not ashamed, clearly, but I am. And I won’t allow myself to any longer be tainted by being in the same room with you.”
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