Programmed for ideology and partisanship

For The Daily Show fans out there, this rather silly but entertaining segment on how Jon Stewart feels while he watches Fox News is how I feel when I pay a usually ill-advised visit to the PLP's website.

Andrew Sullivan's description of Fox News's Sean Hannity articulates precisely the disconnected from reality, extreme brand of partisanship peddled by the PLP, particularly on their website:

Above is Jon Stewart's version of watching Sean Hannity. Yes, I've tried to as well. It's like listening to Hugh Hewitt. Or reading Pravda in the old Soviet Union. But somehow watching a human being so brainwashed and engaging in conscious brain-washing makes it worse. Hannity is a pathological level of propagandist, because his entire reality, his entire mindset is programmed for ideology and partisanship. There is no world for him but politics; and no perspective within politics except conflict and warfare. He greets views that do not comport with the opportunistic ideology of the moment as threats to be extinguished, not ideas to be engaged.

It's for those reasons that when I see the PLP website say "Let's put the political games aside, focus on what unites us and work together to build a better Bermuda" I cringe.

Less than a week ago they were wrongly accusing people of being members of the new political party and defaming them:

Those who have thusfar joined Bermuda's DA are the same old vitriolic voices who have long opposed the PLP. Many of them have a long historic of being partisan, anti-PLP attack dogs desperate to regain political power.

It's a pathological level of propaganda. It isn't serving Bermuda, nor their party in the long term, well.