Thanks to Geoff for sending in this story.
That Bush’s supporters are so patently stupid that many of them believe whatever the right-wing extremists tell them is not news to anyone, but that they choose to believe statements that even Bush and his cronies (no longer) claim to be true, should give you some clue as to how deep in the shit the US now is.
Apparently, 75% of Bush’s supporters still believe Iraq was providing substantial aid to Al-Qaeda. But wait; it gets worse. 51% believe Bush favours participation in the Kyoto treaty, something for which our least favourite babbling baboon has never even tried to conceal his contempt. The mind boggles at the extent to which people will go to delude themselves.
Perhaps the only rational explanation is that, when something like the Kyoto treaty is explained to people in a political survey, they conclude that their president simply must be in favour of it, because it’s so obvious a good cause and one that should be supported. But then, the discovery that their beloved president is against it would shake their world to its core and cause them to have to rethink their loyalties.
As Kevin Spacey’s character, Lester Burnham, says in American Beauty, never underestimate the power of denial.