{"id":30847,"date":"2016-02-06T21:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30847"},"modified":"2016-02-07T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T17:24:05","slug":"the-hive-mind-of-donald-trump-and-the-gop-was-cultivated-by-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30847","title":{"rendered":"The Hive Mind Of Donald Trump And The GOP Was Cultivated By Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The emergence of a villainous dystopian character like Donald Trump might seem like a grotesque aberration of the political process and, in fact, it is. But it is not wholly unexpected when put into context by the events that preceded his arrival and the purposeful efforts of a rogue media empire’s desire to manipulate and control a significant segment of the population. With that in mind, the blind obedience to a perverse doctrine becomes much easier to understand.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s disciples don’t care that he is a flagrant racist who has demonstrated his prejudice against African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims, and women. They aren’t put off by his promises to commit war crimes<\/a> against women and children in Syria and Iraq. They let slide that he isn’t bothered by being compared to Hitler<\/a>. And no matter how much he lies they just brush it off and keep applauding like slap-happy seals (See the Trump Bullshitopedia<\/a>) They even applaud when he insults them as mindless baboons<\/a> saying that…<\/p>\n

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters. OK? It’s like, incredible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump’s followers are so zealous and undiscerning that he could tell them to burn down a church and they would comply. He could tell them to block access to polling places. He could tell them to steal the coats of protesters and throw them out into the cold. Oh wait, he actually did do that<\/a>. He also ordered them to “knock the crap out of<\/a>” protesters at one of his rallies and he told New Hampshire businesses that they could “go f**k themselves<\/a>.” So it isn’t far-fetched to imagine that if he told them to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid they would raises their glasses to toast him before chugging down the poisonous cocktail.<\/p>\n

It is that sort of unquestioning devotion that forms the foundation of every successful cult. And those components were built into Fox News from its inception. In an effort to document this phenomenon, News Corpse published a collection of articles that highlighted the deception, propaganda, and outright lies disseminated by the Fox News community website, Fox Nation. The second volume of this series was dubbed \u201cFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult Of Ignorance.\u201d<\/em> Every chapter is fully verified by reputable sources and exposes the website for its shameful dishonesty and lack of ethics. It reveals the concerted effort by wealthy and powerful media fabulists that is aimed at crippling the intelligence of the willfully dimwitted. It is a great resource for proving to your Fox-deluded friends and family what a den of deceit it is.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Cult of Ignorance.<\/a> Available now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from the introduction:<\/p>\n

Two years ago the first volume of Fox Nation vs. Reality was published revealing an Internet operation that was dedicated to fiercely partisan, right-wing distortions of the truth. Its mission was, and remains, to construct a safe haven for the broader Fox News community to reinforce their preferred fantasies and unfounded preconceptions. The articles aggregated there were from the fringiest sources (i.e. Daily Caller, Alex Jones\u2019 Infowars, Breitbart News, etc.) and often contained nothing but easily disproved falsehoods and rank defamation of liberals.<\/p>\n

Since then Fox Nation has evolved into an even more sheltered environment that has taken on many characteristics of culthood. It is a pattern they adopted from their parent, Fox News, where the slogan \u201cfair and balanced\u201d<\/em> was an implicit condemnation of all other news sources as being neither. Recognizing that the prime directive of a cult is to convince your followers that your version of reality is the only true version and that all others are agents of deception, Fox segregated their disciples to prevent them from being contaminated by impure thoughts, otherwise known as facts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of the enlightening, infuriating, and entertaining chapters include:<\/p>\n