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I am at the point where I can decide what bothers me more: that conservatives tell all these completely outrageous lies, or that millions of people believe those lies.

Just look at some of these:

And this is all in the last week.

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There are, of course, 52 weeks in a year and Barack Obama has been president since 2008. You do the math.

The theater of the absurd has become so absurd it’s a wonder everyone isn’t simply laughing at this point. That anyone can take these ridiculous claims at face value staggers me. They have as much truth value as saying the moon is made of cheese and the earth is flat. Yet millions of Americans gather around their TVs at home or in public places to gobble up the pabulum dished out by Fox News, believing every word of it. What’s worse, eagerly believing every word of it.

Pretty much any lie a conservative cares to tell, the more absurd the better, is likely to be believed by the Republican base. Any lie they tell which is disproven will continue to be talked about on Fox News as though it is true and no mention will ever be made that it has been disproved.

Conservatism has become a reality inside a reality, a bubble completely insulated from our shared reality. Bad enough they choose to stick their collective heads in the ground in this way, but they expect to shape national policy according to not our shared reality but their fabricated version, as though it has any bearing on the world at all.

The problem is that if your argument is based on false premises, your argument isn’t worth much. Look at their recent Syria spin, that the world supported U.S. military intervention in Iraq in 2003. It did not. So they tell a lie about Iraq and pretend it’s true, saying that because the lie is truth, we should do “X” about Syria.

The real danger then of Republicanism’s love of a fantasy reality is that they want to share their dysfunction – forcefully – with the rest of us. They insist upon it. Saying stupid things and having the right to say those stupid things, and even to believe them, is one thing, but forcing us to live somebody else’s delusions is a fantasy too far.

Save it for the public restrooms, Republicans. Really. We mean it.