"There
are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics."
Benjamin
Disraeli
When the public finally decides that the
Emperor has no clothes, it becomes impossible to find a tailor to fix the
problem. In a somewhat similar vein, Casey Stengel the first manager of the
hapless New York Mets once asked plaintively of the team "Can't anyone here play
this game?"
Today America is full of both Casey
Stengel's and aroused,angry skeptics pointing out the President is incompetent
and naked to boot. His incompetence however is merely a cover for his lying. Our
politics have always been full of liars coupled to a partisan press who reports
on them in ways that enable their lying. We have always had a free press but it
has not always been an honest press.
Today with the technical capacity to
deliver massive information to the average person there is ironically a growing
tuning out and turning off on the part of far too many citizens. Past
generations had what would be arrogantly determined today as a sub-standard or
limited education emanating out of one room school houses or the early
public schools sans any teachers union. These however produced a well informed
and comparatively sophisticated educated class that could follow and understand
complex legal, political and economic arguments on a level and in numbers you
would not find today. Now the information overload and ideological social
justice propaganda disguised as factual
knowledge has in fact made far too many people ignorant.
The cultural hype that echoes and
sustains this travesty in subtle and insidious ways have also given the
pathological liars of politics an open field with few defensive tacklers.
Lincoln once said "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of
the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the
time!". But today there is a sinking and forlorn feeling that we are close to
if not arrived at an "all of the people...all of the time " moment in our public
affairs.
Virtually everything that comes out of
the white house or the Democratic Party at all levels now needs to be fact
checked by the Washington Post to see how many "Pinocchios" they deserve. This
due in large part to a President who came to adulthood being told he is
brilliant, infallible and perfect. He has surrounded himself with so many "yes"
people that the word "no" has been banished to the "terra incognita" where they
sent "Islamic terrorism".
He and his party lie about war and peace,
health and sickness, God and man, citizens and aliens, humans and the
environment, friends and enemies, and good and evil. Their lies are about such
basic, essential and deeply personal issues that the only curiosity that remains
is why it has taken so long for he and they to be
exposed?
It has become so bad for him that even
his fellow Democratic prevaricators shun him for fear of defeat by
association. The Democratic senator from Alaska, Mr. Begich goes so far as to
say that the President is now irrelevant which has to be the unkindest cut of
all for a narcissist with a self declared mandate to heal the world while his
words say one thing and his actions say quite another. He has become the first President in the history of
the nation that requires a personal polygraph along with his TelePrompTer when
he make public statements.
We are less than a week away from a vital
mid term election. We have to take the country back and clean up the cess pool
that the professional political class have created and tried to sell as
democracy. In God's name go vote to save the nation...go vote to save
yourselves...go vote to save future generations! You have been persistently and
cruelly been made the victims of untruths, half truths, calumnies, mendacities,
disinformation, deceptions, fabrications, fictions and falsehoods and maybe
when the truth become so elusive as to be almost non-existent, that's why you
feel your life sucks...maybe that's why over 60% of you feel that's there's no
future for you or your kids...maybe it's because of all those lies...lies about
big things and little things that never seem to end...those damn
lies!
ERLANDSSON
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