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America's anti IVF and the truth

Looking at the American right you have strange positions being adopted such as Tim Scott a well-known ultra-right-wing Senator who on Thursday voted against the right of women to seek IVF treatment, and him, the next day, sending out a fundraising mailer which touted his strong support for IVF.  Something strange is happening.

Last week Donald Trump said that Milwaukee was a terrible city, why he said that or whether he even said became a bone of contention.  His supporters are taking the position that he did not, yet on Thursday Trump confirmed on Newsmax that he had said that Milwaukee was a terrible city.

Republicans live in an echo chamber.  They are satisfied as long as what they say is reported on either Newsmax or Fox.  They hear or listen to nothing else.  There was even a story where Trump had an employee whose SOLE job is to find positive news articles about him and print them for him to read.  Not just articles about him, but positive articles about him.

Why watching the American electoral process is so strange is that certain candidates have decided that they don't need to talk to anyone outside the faithful.  One Newsmax reporter even said, live on air, that the only way for America to demonstrate that its electoral system was not broken was for Trump to win by a landslide...  In other words, reject every other outcome.

Thankfully, here in the UK, it's more difficult.  A politician can ignore certain news outlets but with only about 7 broadsheets, it's hard.   We do have our share of insanity but it's local (thinking of you Liz).  You have the occasional sycophant writer who will pay lip service to stupid bits (Cameron complaining that Rishi was stupid for declaring the election).  The phenomenon is largely American and it's Americans on the right who suffer the most.   The delusion that having 20,000 in an arena demonstrates that a candidate will win an election where there are 7 million voters (as was the case in Florida not too long ago), shows to what level the problem has grown.  

Ask any Republican voter he will tell you that Trump won the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 (he did not, Biden had 10 million more votes).  The vast majority are convinced that Trump is still the president today but will complain that Biden is a terrible president.  Also, Trump will take over from Biden very soon anyway.   In February, we spent a little time in California (left-wing crazies) and in Colorado (Gun toting nuts).   We saw it first-hand lies are discussed as the truth, a strange situation especially when some rabid woman is trying to convince me that critical race theory was being taught in school while not having a clue what CRT is in reality (BTW it is a tiny subset explanation of certain urbanist decision in the 50s and 60s).    Considering I got a First in History from Cambridge...

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