Sirota, I just love this guy.  Check out yesterday’s piece at OpenLeft.

Sometimes I get emails that really reinforce just how totally ignorant and uninformed a huge swath of America really is. These can be jarring, demoralizing and depressing all at the same time. But they are good reminders of exactly what we are dealing with in mass politics today.

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Is this willful ignorance or inadvertent stupidity? Hard to say as the lines are blurry. Most likely it’s a mixture of both. The right-wing mediasphere provides a hermetically sealed environment that completely insulates rank-and-file conservatives from basic reality, and so when confronted with that reality, they simply cannot see it.

Sure, many of these rank-and-file conservatives have willfully and consciously chosen to enter that echo chamber, but many have done so inadvertently, because that echo chamber is now so ubiquitous as to be invisible. It’s sorta like the Matrix - they can’t see it because it’s everywhere.

If you remember back to the posts, this summer about the Massa townhall meetings, you will see this ignorance in action.

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