Posted on 04/14/2015 10:28:17 AM PDT by Starman417
The lies of the left drive American politics. For years we heard the “Bush Lied” mantra chanted endlessly. It didn’t matter that the claim was wrong. A lie is a very specific thing… Saying a falsehood when you know it to be wrong. Bush never did that. While in retrospect the question of Saddam’s WMDs is unclear, at the time George Bush, Bill Clinton and the intelligence agencies of most of the world believed he did. There is a difference between being wrong and lying… but the left doesn’t care about truth when a lie better serves their purposes, whether it’s WMDs, the “rape culture”, the “war on women” or blaming Benghazi on a video.
Two illustrative examples can be found in Ferguson, MO and Indiana. One was the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” meme that played itself out everywhere from the House chamber to the NFL and countless places and broadcasts across the country. Of course the basic premise was a complete lie, and an easily known one at that, but that didn’t matter. There was little hard reporting by the mainstream press to illuminate that fact because it supported their political agenda.
Similarly a similar scenario played itself out on the national stage recently when Indiana passed its Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Across the mainstream media and the left (sorry for being redundant) cries of discrimination could be heard. The suggestion was that the RFRA would allow any business to choose not to serve gay customers simply because they were gay. That was a lie. The legislation did nothing of the kind. It simply protected from suit or prosecution those whose believed their religion was against gay marriage and therefore declined to participate in the wedding or its various supporting activities. The difference may be subtle, but it’s distinct. Not that that matters to the left because fealty to the truth are foreign concepts to them.
Why does any of this matter? Because government responds to the voices of the people, eventually. We got the disaster of Obamacare because the left convinced enough people that the failures of the healthcare marketplace were due to insufficient regulation, despite the fact that the opposite was true. We got Dodd-Frank because the left convinced enough people that the financial collapse of 2007 / 2008 was due to a lack of regulation when in reality the opposite was true. Even now Barack Obama is ramping up his push of the fictional “global warming” agenda because he buys into the hoax that’s been foisted on the nation over the last two decades despite overwhelming evidence that no such warming exists.
In modern day America reality is no longer the driving force for policy, instead it’s whatever the left says it is, factual or otherwise. Even when it comes to the GOP, they play according to the rules established by the left rather than dealing the reality most Americans actually live with. And that’s a problem… for the GOP and the country. If the GOP agrees to play by the ground rules set by the left, they will have handed victory to Hillary or Pocahontas or whoever emerges from the cesspool of the Democrat party.
2016 promises to be the single most defining election in a century and a half. The choice will be between continuing down our current path that inevitably leads to a fascist state where economics and culture are dictated by whatever the left deems is acceptable, or returning to a path ordered by limited government and individual rights. But that choice only exists if the GOP is willing to stand up and make the argument for freedom.
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Is Obama still hiding his birth certificate?
Bush was not an organizational Democrat. Bush spoke. Therefore Bush lied. Democrats tell the Truth. Everyone else lies unless everyone else repeats the Democrat’s claims. But if everyone else is in the wrong organization they they are lying even when they repeat what the Democrats say. All of this makes sense when reality is conceived of as purely a mental construct.
It’s called “Doublethink”.
No. We just had that election. I think our path has irretrievably diverged from reality with the recent midterms and the results in Congress. The Sultan and his minions will change the landscape so completely in the next 12 months or so that elections will be superfluous. Some other means will be required to catch the falling nation before it hits the rocks. We are already over the edge. Elections are like continuing to put gas in the car after the tank has ruptured.
This is why I'm supporting Ted Cruz. He can and will articulate why conservatives are correct, why small government benefits everyone, and why freedom is better than obedience to a ruling elite.
If I were Mr. Smith; my reply would be “Do you still molest your neighbor’s kid?”
Have to disagree with the government listens to the voice of the people.
The government only listens to the voice of certain voices of special interests.. i.e. the Gay lobby..
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