Fact Free Politics

Ever since Obama chose to run for President, the U. S. has experienced fact free politics.  A culture where UNTRUTH has triumphed over facts, references and sources.  And, all this has been promoted by an enthusiastic, deliberate and systematic campaign to destroy Barack Obama's presidency before it even got started.  The economic collapse was answered with emergency measures, a bank bailout, an auto bailout and the stimulus package. 

While almost identical to Mitt Romney's health reform in Massachusetts, and far to the Right of the Clinton's in the '90s, Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will actually reduce the deficit.  That while placing millions more within the program and providing insurance and drug companies with more customers.  That was all turned into a Socialist Governmental take-over.

All of these moves could be held as detrimental in lots of ways but what you cannot do is say they portray Obama as an ultra Socialist anti-American who is taking the U. S. down a path to oblivion.  Fox News, Rush, Sean, Michael, Glen and various others have put that in our heads day and night for so long, it almost seems true . . . ALMOST!

If a Republican President had stepped up and helped turn around our financial institutions, our auto industries and done that profitably while insuring millions within the private sector, cut Medicare fraud and misuse, overseen a decline in illegal immigration, started a pull out from Iraq, set up a debt commission to reduce future debt, and seen job growth within a deliberate recovery . . . I don't think that Republican President would be referred to as a Socialist.  Yet, because the President is a Democrat, that is exactly what has happened.

The BIG LIE is nothing but a bunch of little lies--"Death panels, out of control spending, climate change is a myth, Obama will take your guns away, a tax on financial transactions, average Federal employees make $120,000 per year, $200,000,000 per day to travel to India, rationed health care, Obama was born in Kenya, Obama is a Muslim, Obama is a radical Christian, Obama is an atheist," and oh so many more.  It is the onslaught of all the little stuff that makes the BIG LIE, the accumulated lie.  This all got into the minds of the people and became, at first, plausible, then possible, then probable and later true because they never let up and never varied in their talking points.  And, none of this was officially refuted.  A lie told long enough becomes the truth, someone said.

Don't let them get away with it.  Look things up, check it out for yourself and call them on it.  Ask for references, as for sources, ask where they read it, heard it and who wrote it or said it.

You might ask me, "They are all lying, isn't there a law against that?"  For the answer to that you really need to go to:
http://swoopsfromsnowyowl.blogspot.com/2010/06/isnt-there-law-against-that.html