Is "goodthought" (ignorant orthodoxy) the only way to answer the Conservative Propaganda Masheen?

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CERTAIN PEOPLE OF MY ACQUAINTENANCE ARE OF THE OPINION THAT, WHEN IT COMES TO THE CONSERVATIVE PROPAGANDA MASHEEN and its perpetrators, it may actually be better to simply ignore them and not respond @ all; the argument here being that the Rush Limbaugh/Fox Prolefeed/Chris Matthews crowd gets their jollies from all manner of attacks and criticism so directed, forcing them to "push their buttons" and intensify their attacks every time fresh criticism is so directed.

On the other hand, so this line of thinking goes, simply ignoring them and their line of propaganda will, in due course and measurable distance, only frustrate the messengers to the point of paranoia for want of response or attacks.

Which begs the question of whether this means we should essentially act village-idiot-stylee stupid (howbeit as a "protective cover," we should explain), or otherwise pretend to stupidity or disinterest in current events.

Otherwise known in Orwellian Newspeak as "goodthought" (i.e., an unswerving and unyielding orthodoxy, practiced as it were second nature, accepting the Prevailing Official Line without question or reservation).

Which begs the question of whether acting "village-idiot-stupid" is any way to respond to the Religiopolitical Right's propaganda, and its channels therefor. Which, come to think of it, runs counter to the argument of "silence=acceptance."