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Freedom of Religion is what our country was founded on.
The religious right has many potent weapons in its
arsenal—sanctimony, bigot-pandering, and dishonesty rank right up at the
top—but lately, pretending to be victimized seems to top the list. We
have a soundbite-driven, points-scoring political culture that resists
deeper analysis of the issues, making it perfect for bad actors to muddy
up the issues. All you do is accuse your opposition of doing what you,
in fact, are actually doing. If you want to oppress people, claim you’re
being oppressed. If you want to deprive people of their rights, whine
about how your rights are supposedly under attack. The idea is to
confuse audiences about who is actually oppressing who long enough that
they give up actually bothering to learn the truth. Unfortunately, it
can be devastatingly effective propaganda.
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