https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... ge%2Fstory
别讥笑他们生活在梦一样的世界里,分辨不出谣言和现实的差别。我们生活在知识分子小圈子里,大家都是读纽约客,喝星巴克,买学区房的同路人。大家各有各的 bubbles。我们也从来没把他们当成真人,而且是数量巨大的真人。他们完全可以跳起来革我们的命。She was a 52-year-old woman who had worked 20 years for the railroad, had once been a Democrat and was now a Republican, and counted herself among the growing swath of people who occupied the fringes of American politics but were increasingly becoming part of the mainstream. Like millions of others, she believed that President Obama was a Muslim. And like so many she had gotten to know online through social media, she also believed that he was likely gay, that Michelle Obama could be a man, and that the Obama children were possibly kidnapped from a family now searching for them.
一定要看完,后面的故事很好看,而且充满了反讽。
我想起历史课本里经常说,辛亥革命不彻底,因为没有深入到广大人民群众里,毛泽东的革命有效地发动了广大底层农民的热情,所以成功了。No shit.She figured it started with the Christian televangelists she had followed since the 1980s. In particular, she loved John Hagee, who had said that the Antichrist would appear as a “blasphemer and a homosexual.” And Jerry Falwell, who had blamed the Sept. 11 attacks on “the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians.”
“Also,” Melanie said, “Falwell disclosed that the first Christmas Bill and Hillary spent in the White House, Hillary collected ornaments from homosexuals all over the world. And those ornaments were hung in the White House foyer.”