Posted on 11/19/2014 5:47:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Jonathan Gruber set off a firestorm of controversy, at least in the conservative media, with the recent revelation of his comments about the "stupidity of the American people," which allowed the Affordable Care Act to be passed. In essence, he admitted that the bill was written in a way that would allow its purveyors to characterize it as the cure-all and salvation for a health care system that was in trouble, with no danger of their deception being discovered by a populace that is trusting and naive. He obviously never intended for his comments to make it into the public sphere and did not consider the fact that someone is always recording on their smartphone.
What is truly disturbing is the fact that our government is willing to engage in the purposeful deception of the populace in order to thrust its secretive agenda onto an unsuspecting populace and a sycophantic mainstream media. As I have said many times before, Obamacare was never about health care; it was about government control and wealth redistribution. If there was real concern about the uninsured, it would have been much cheaper and considerably less complex to simply give all of the uninsured Cadillac health plans for life. I am a firm believer that health care reform was and is needed, and I have been advocating for it for several years. It needs to be done correctly, though, and in a way that does not create different levels of access and treatment.
There is no question that the American people are distracted by sports and entertainment and that we confer godlike status on actors and some athletes. There is also no question that we could do more to enhance our knowledge about important issues. However, to assume that the American people are stupid and uncaring and to design programs and speeches around that assumption is arrogant, disrespectful and, frankly, very shortsighted. As has famously been said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
This most recent revelation by the unmasking of one of the chief architects of Obamacare is far from the first and only indication of a pattern of deception and manipulation by the current administration. There appears to be overt contempt for the intelligence of the populace by people who would have us believe that the Benghazi disaster was caused by an ill-defined and little-watched video, and that there was not even a smidgen of evidence of wrongdoing surrounding the "phony" Internal Revenue Service scandal, and that the government would never engage in spying on its own citizens without cause. Unfortunately, the administration knows that it can say virtually anything, and that there are some people who are so desperate to believe that it will be accepted as truth. They also know that many members of the mainstream media subscribe to their same ideology and will protect them, regardless of the consequences.
Only people who doubt the analytical ability of the populace would believe that giving people free phones and generous entitlements could purchase their loyalty forever. Only people who think the populace consists of morons would believe that they could keep delaying the employer mandate portion of Obamacare until after an important election, and that people would not realize that they were being manipulated.
The recent election results indicate the resurgence of an informed populace in our nation. Even though the awakening is not complete, I believe Gruber may be proved wrong about the intellect of the American people.
Uh...two previous elections proved that they are.
Jonathon Gruber is the new Monica Lewinsky.
The election proved there are LOTS of stupid americans. Just not enough. ;-)
Exactly. Too much is being read into this election. A few more Americans may have awakened but they will soon be lullabied back to sleep by the MSM.
Unfortunately, enough people were fooled to re-elect Hussein.
“Too stupid”
Really?
What the Liberals are REALLY saying is that Americans are smart enough to have seen how unworkable, deliberately unclear and WRONG the ACA is on all counts AND would have rejected it BECAUSE it was so deliberately unclear, wrong and unworkable... but ..
However, Liberals (loving to have it BOTH WAYS as usual) reasoned that if voters opposed their ACA plan, they would do so out of stupidity.
Right.
Smart enough to see what a truly bad plan it was ... but stupid for rejecting it BECAUSE it was so bad!!
Really????
Americans voted for him twice and his flying monkeys in the senate and house, too. Some finally wised up. Gonna take a lot to turn enough around to make a difference..
this should show you all that the news media a create a false reality that we all live in
Too little, too late.
Bashing honest, hard-working, well-intentioned, good-natured, politically naive, American brothers and sisters, moms and dads, etc. as "stupid" by POS deceptive National Socialists like sick-o-gruber and his ilk, is an affront to conservative, well-informed, historically-based citizens of the republic.
HOORAY Ben Carson!
I agree, some woke up, some saw through the deception of Obama and his minions. Many saw through the deception of Hitler in WW2 but they ended up dead anyway. My question is now that we woke up, when do we get around to actually stopping these loons?
We aren't going to shut down government, we aren't going to impeach. Now what?
C'mon 2016. The beatings will continue until neo-marxists disappear from the body politic. Take note RINOS.
live - free - republic
Great takedown of the elitist, heavily-compensated, M.I.T. (Marxist Initiator of Totalitarianism) deceiver.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
For the half of the country that were against this bill lead by the "teaparty" activists we were scorned, demonized, laughed at, ridiculed, called terrorists and bomb throwers and when that did not stop us, they used the IRS to try to stop us. All this time we were the right ones, the smart ones.
Not a single Republican senator or Congressman voted in favor of that monstrosity called Obamacare. It must be make perfectly clear that democrat Phd com man Gruber, called stupid not all the American voters, but just the democrat voters that put the “Liar in Chief” in the White House, in spite of his Marxist anti-American back ground, and all the Democrats legislators co-conspirators with the president and the MSM in the greatest deception against the American people in the history of the United States.
According to Obama, the MTI professor, a frequent visitor to the White House, was just an adviser. For his “invaluable advise and services” to the Obama administration professor Gruber received over 5.9 million dollars... Stupidity and corruption to the to nth power.
MSM = Journalgrubers
In general it's looking to me that large pieces of the Democrat base may have stayed on the couch, and slightly more of the Republican base got off theirs. Isn't it a bit farfetched to assume that this will have any effect on the 2016 shootout, particularly since the Republicans (Whatever TF that means nowadays) are operating without a Plan, Program, or strong leadership? (Which is to say the same RINO leaders who have been osculating the Soetoro gluteal regions for years.)
IMNVHO, The Mombasa MF Is still whippin'em like a rented mule. I can't wait to see what happens when Reggie's boyfriend kicks off the Amnesty fight tomorrow night, exquisitely timed to coincide with the Ferguson "demonstrations."
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