Good observations, frank.
I, too, have noticed the jackals are saying things about their liberal heroes that, not long ago, they would have defended. This confirms to me is that liberals will shun info if it harms their causes and the people who carry out their agenda while blindly embracing anything that helps their efforts. They're even willing to accept things now they would have rejected just months ago. So their whole worldview is built upon "Here's what I want to believe; now what is it that pushes it forward and what is it I must reject?"
So things we as conservative have either known to be true or of which we should be rightly suspicious, they are now willing to accept because they believe it helps them. That may be categorized as finally accepting "truth", but it can hardly be called sincere belief. If these new "truths" (to them) suddenly don't help them tomorrow, they'll be back to rejecting them.
The primitives on Skin's island, the hillbots and the like, are no different. They've just latched onto the Dem party and will ride it wherever it takes them. In the same manner, what the party tells them is the "truth" to them. And if the party tells them to believe the opposite of what they were told to believe yesterday, then they'll happily go along without the slightest notion of their own hypocrisy.
So I'll give it to the jackals that they broken free of the party dictate. But their habit of believing what they call "truth" just for the sake of upholding what they want to believe hasn't changed at all.
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