Republicans And Sevco Fans Are Very Good At Denying Reality
One of the key condemnations of the Republican Party is its ability to deny or bend the truth; whether it’s lying about the records of their political opponents, refusing to accept evidence of global warming, blaming the poor for the banking crisis or continuing to insist that American foreign policy has made the world a better place … no other political party on Earth is quite so inclined towards creating their own version of reality.
Sevco fans have the same problem; everything from pretending they have no problem with sectarianism to their indulgences like the Survival and Victim myths, down to their off-the-wall belief that Scottish football has “suffered in their absence” and that, in fact, Armageddon happened after all, to their view of themselves as a “huge club” with off-the-radar worldwide support … these folk are superb at making the reality they want, rather than living in the world that is.
Much of the American media calls what the Republicans do “living in the bubble.” They get criticism for it and commentators from across the spectrum (except for certain right wing talk show hosts who are impervious to reason) nail them on it time and time again … but they persist with it anyway and tailor their entire political outlook around it.
Obama won two elections because of it, and Hillary Clinton looks like she’ll be President next, with no end in sight to the Democrat’s stranglehold on the Oval Office.
No-one in the Scottish media ever calls Sevco, or its supporters, on their penchant for denying reality; in fact, they encourage the madness and the stupidity and it has cost the club since its inception in 2012, much as it destroyed Rangers.
The media atmosphere both explains, and excuses, the Sevco fans for their continued behaviour.
To the rest of us it seems abnormal and even demented, but “the bubble” they live in encompasses much of our press as well as the governing bodies … so you can hardly hold it against them, surrounded, as they are, by equally stupid people.
The Republicans have no such excuse. They are clearly the dumber in this case.
One point to the GOP.