How can so many be so duped so long?

Tonight I received an email piece about US citizens who still believe the Rovian verbiage that has come out of the mouth of George W. Bush for the last five and a half years. Due to a particular colloquialism used in each and every paragraph, I'm not about to go a-quoting on this venerable page. But the question at hand is one that most of the world has been asking since the Bush cabal started its announcing and pronouncing: Why do people with actual brains believe all the baloney? Why oh why oh why?

Maybe it is because they are in sync with the distractions the Rove machine is contantly stirring into the pot. To quote a G-rated sentence from the above-mentioned article, the Bushites ardently believe that in order to have blind obedience to their imperial nostrums, "We should be talking about homosexual illegal immigrants burning flags."

That and The Rapture.

In the meantime, it seems that a great number of Americans still believe that Iraq was involved with 9/11, that there really were WMDs there (Is that you, Senator Santorum?), that al Qaeda is "on the run" (even after Bin Laden immediately appointed a successor to the dead Zarqawi), that there is not a civil war in Iraq, that "we are winning the war on terror," that -- the latest doozy -- Bush is "solving global warming."

Duped to the max? Duh.