Originally posted by Ratmagiclady Then they lie....
I have only recently come to the conclusion that lying is a key part of the GOP strategy. They actually get together and dream up clever things to say that cross the line from political spin to outright lies. I've resisted ever saying that it was true out of fairness, and from my belief in the innate goodness of humankind. But the GOP has been taken over by a dark influence, and slowly all the decent Republican politicians are either giving in to it, or are not running for another term.
Originally posted by mikemike Do we want a leader whose team fails at making charts and graphs or do we want one with a track record of failing the american people?
The President hasn't failed the American people, the right wingers have sabotaged America, from a stonewalling congress to the Supreme Court, and now lying.
Why has the GOP turned to baldfaced lying to win? What's really going on is that the long-term effects of unregulated capitalism is upon us, and the GOP has become the party of unregulated capitalism. When unregulated, and gains are not distributed fairly, this is what happens:
The unregulated capitalist wants profits for himself and stockholders above all other considerations. If they can cut benefits, if people work at a wage too low to survive, if business pays no taxes, if everyone but the main players languish, no problem, and then they elect people to office who support this.
As the ugly truth becomes evermore apparent, how does the party of unregulated capitalism make their philosophy appealing to enough voters to keep themselves in office? They lie, it's the only avenue they have. A robust central government is bad; a fair distribution of wealth is socialism; the war in Iraq was about WMD (not control over oil and preservation of the dollar as the world's reserve currency); universal health care is death panels, a tax, will hurt America's status as providing the best medical care (
); regulating Wall Street and banking and polution is killing business; not paying taxes will make you richer (but don't notice all the services you will not have or will be paying for straight out of your pocket, or your dwindling police and fire protection, gutted schools and decimated teacher corps); make us rich and we will create more jobs and all will have plenty; there is "widespread" voter fraud; global warming is a myth, Obama has failed (and we had nothing to do with it
) . . . you get the picture.
The point is, lying is the only way the GOP has of trying to keep people from noticing what unregulated capitalism does to a nation -- it is in their interest to keep people as dumb as posts and deluded by falsehoods (cutting funds to education is a fantastic strategy for this).