6 good reasons to hate lying GOP ~ because 5 are not enough: Draft diary of 2012 I’d forgotten about focused on lying Republican leaders. Yes, Republican Extreme Lie Politics. Posting today because it highlights the fact that Republicans brought all this on themselves, and us, over decades of increasingly blatant lies to their gullible base, culminating in this horrific presidency of a juvenile, pathological, imbecilic liar intent on ruining our democracy. It might be considered prescient — but for the fact that, hey, I believe we all got it. And yet? Should it not have been clear four years ago that the Trump kind of presidency was the logical outcome of Republican Extreme Lie Politics. But who ever dreamed it could happen here?
6 good reasons to hate lying GOP ~ because 5 are not enough
2012
Yes, I hate the Republicans’ way of winning. They think the way to win, the way to rule the country, if not the world, is to lie. Republicans have become so conditioned to accepting the lies their leaders tell that they expect and approve of the lying. "Sure, they have to lie. Nothing wrong with that if it gets them elected, if it gets the Democrat out of office." Anything to be in control. Republicans like lies. They like them no matter how vile or incredible or low they are. They especially like conspiracy theories which are just the natural extension of a single lie and which paint their "adversary" in a humiliating or bad light. They do not care who the lies hurt. That is not part of the equation for them. They do not think they are hurting the country. Because they think it is their country and they know best. They paint Democrats as ungodly, the "other," who don't matter. They believe they are patriotic and that Democrats are not. These are delusions. These lies by Republicans — from the bottom to the very top of the Party — hurt Americans badly. Below the orange squiggle are facts about some big lies.
Republicans blindly trust their leaders. But secretly, they know they lie about Democrats. They just don't care. When desperate, they cry: Give me a lie, anything, so I can justify not voting for that black man. Republican voters are gullible. They have closed their minds to facts, to the truth, to science and evidence and reason. Democracy cannot function this way without becoming corrupt or altered. This has furthered the move toward Plutocracy. We just don't call it that yet, or not many of us. Government for and by the 1%, that's what Romney and Ryan want. Obama does not want that. Today these things riled and shocked me, saving the worst for last.
1. An email from Mother Jones this morning linked me to a Chart of Obama Conspiracy Theories by Republicans. If it were not so vile and disgusting and absurd it would be laughable. It's tragic, not funny. Incredibly ignorant. Shocking that anyone would believe these lies. So many of them!
2. A lengthy article on the GOP's ridiculous history of calling Democratic politicians "gay" or "faggot" — continuing today toward Obama. I was ignorant of this. They have been playing this game so long that it’s now in their DNA, which is why they say every conservative crackpot can’t wait to tell you that Barack Obama is gay. www.thenation.com/..."> GOP for decades make homophobic lies up about Democrats
3. Romney is still saying in speeches that Obama had cut $700 million from Medicare in ways that hurt seniors! A clear lie being run in his ads as well, this major continuing lie scares older voters and seems to be working in Florida. Either that or they just do not believe Romney/Ryan will voucherize Medicare, or they do not care because he told them it would only affect citizens 55 or under.
4. Continued use of the fear-mongering lie about Jeep: Romney tells people that Chrysler is thinking of closing plants here and shipping production jobs to China, after it has been refuted up and own by the corporation itself. This is evil. Evil because it scares people whose jobs are at stake, evil for using fear for one's gain, caring nothing about it's impact on people's emotions and lives. Typical Republican disregard for people. I'd like them to prove otherwise. They can't.
But trying to scare American workers into believing that a government initiative that saved their industry was some sort of secret scheme to shutter major plants and offshore jobs is more than just creepy. It’s economic fear-mongering of a sort that is destructive to the spirit of communities and to the very future of the republic as an industrial force. Chrysler lie refuted by Chrysler.
5. Romney was caught making a terrible statement so he now lies, saying he cares for and wants to serve 100% of Americans. In his famous recorded 47% statement he showed contempt for nearly half of Americans he claimed show no responsibility, pay no taxes, who just want to live off the government. People who, he said, were not his concern as they would never vote for him, and he could never make them "care about their own lives"!
6. Lying and obscuring their true agenda, Romney and Ryan plan to do terrible things that will inevitably greatly harm vulnerable American children, disabled, men, woman, elderly and veterans. They lie and obscure their true agenda which has been revealed in a great many sources on tape, in budgets and so forth. They will not tell the American people outright of their plans to do so; as Romney once said, you have to talk about these things "in quiet rooms" where no one can hear you except donors apparently. They are stealth candidates. They want to steal the safety net programs from the vulnerable and they want to enrich themselves by privatizing government programs in which they can invest, and cutting taxes for the wealthiest. Yes, Medicaid. Food Stamps. Medicare. Clean Air and Clean Water. Government Jobs. FDA. Education. They have been trying to steal votes by voter suppression.
And Republicans aren’t just making idle threats. As Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert reported, the class of GOP governors swept into office in 2010 secured massive public sector layoffs—a sadly disregarded part of the story of our ongoing economic slump. ….. Romney’s contempt for public workers is of a piece with his contempt for those who rely most on public services—or, as he calls, them, “the 47 percent.” Bus rider? Public school parent? Guess what: You’re on your own....YOYO
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