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Oh, most do. This kind of vacuous PR nonsense is blatantly transparent and isn't really fooling anybody.

Those who are already on the "team" (i.e. - they identify as a member of the party but have no particular ideology of their own) may appear swayed, but usually this is just a bad faith effort on the part of party loyalists to stifle criticism from within.

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Really fooled or not, the radical progressives have won the cultural war, no? TV anchors and politicians use racism and sexism to attack pretty much any opposing views. Case in point, WaPo(?) article said WSB folks were white supremacists/Trump supporters, never mind majority of them are actually supporters of Sanders.

Where is the voice of the people who are not really fooled?

we as a society will move on from it at some point. It's not really about winning the cultural war, it's about the elites manipulating the population and thus using the language du jour.

20-30 years ago it would have been about family values, christian values, and down with the gays. In 20-30 years it'll be something else, but what won't change is those in power stay in power.

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