Precisely!!

This is exactly the point of everything I've been trying to say here. Already, though, it's evident that the RWS™ and Fox "news" and their followers are pulling the bubble even more tightly around themselves. As obvious as it has become that they lie to themselves as much as to everyone else, it still doesn't seem very likely that the message will get through: we need two strong and reality-based parties. We need honest conversations and good arguments on both sides to come to practical solutions to actual problems.

In today's Republican party, and from their favored "news" sources, we have none of it. And it's killing us.

(The longer version of Rachel's soliloquy can be seen here.)