# The years of brain washing by the right paid off **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 23, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-years-of-brain-washing-by-the-right-paid-off/1010667 "2024-11-23T14:02:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-years-of-brain-washing-by-the-right-paid-off/1010667/141 "2024-11-27T13:49:55Z")
They’re talking about people not property… ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-years-of-brain-washing-by-the-right-paid-off/1010667/142 "2024-11-27T14:15:49Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > It’s the Left’s fault that prominent conservatives think that Jews are using space lasers to cause forest fires to make climate chance seem worse, obviously. Also, the government can control the weather to punish red states with flooding and hurricanes – it’s also the Left’s fault that prominent conservatives believe that. And let’s not forget the left’s climate change conspiracy that is forcing insurers to abandon states like Florida and California. If the left weren’t lying about that, you’d still be able to insure your home. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-years-of-brain-washing-by-the-right-paid-off/1010667/143 "2024-11-27T21:42:08Z")
That’s because the insurers are all hippie socialists. Their business _is_ based, after all, on shared risk. /s ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-years-of-brain-washing-by-the-right-paid-off/1010667/144 "2024-12-09T05:53:54Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Maybe what changed is that the Left made conspiracy theories seem less implausible. Watergate. Iran-Contra. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Yep, it’s definitely the Left that made conspiracies seem more plausible. > [@Lumpy](#): > > If you had presented to the people of fifty years ago the world of 2024, they would have dismissed it as a comically impossible dystopia. Which part? Flatscreen TVs, wireless phones, pocket computers? Mass shootings and road rage incidents? Russia invading a sovereign nation in Europe and NATO staying out of it? Corporations driving the cost of medications to ridiculous heights? Insurance companies plotting more ways to deny coverage and reduce what they pay for? Internet porn? The death of malls? The proliferation of media presentation methods and channels that make an overabundance of entertainment options, but you have to pay for each seperately? Apps, apps, apps - everybody wants you to get their specific app? Social media that actively promotes stupid memes and actively impedes conversations? “News” media that knowingly lies to their viewers for ratings and to push a political agenda by distortion of information? Self-driving cars and smart houses? LEDs that are brighter than incandescent with less energy use and significantly less wasted energy? Dog parks? Zoom meetings? Obamacare? You’re going to have to be a little more specific on what is the distopia, and then you will need to explain how it is the Left’s fault. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-years-of-brain-washing-by-the-right-paid-off/1010667.md?page=7)