How do they do it? Members of the GOP tell one lie after another and for the most part don't get challenged for it. If they do get challenged, they pay no political price for it. How do they get away with the small lies as well as the serial Big Lies that is part of their GOP meme? Yet even if a Democrat tells a tiny lie and is called on it, they're done, fini, kaput.
Whether you're a Senate candidate in Illinois lying about your military experience or the Governor of Arizona talking about severed heads being found in the desert(which every law enforcement entity denies is true), you pay no political price for telling these small lies. Why have the small lies been given the stature of the Big Lie.
GODWIN BEWARE!
The OSS (The precursor of the CIA) psychological profile report on Hitler noted the following;
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
Hitler blamed the Jews of the Big Lie, Goebbels blamed the Brits of the Big Lie. The reality was they were both engaged in a bit of projection bias and for the most part so are the GOP leadership.
But the Biggest Lie told in the GOP isn't told by it's Leadership, it's told by it's rank and file. It's the lie they tell themselves every time they look in the mirror. Their lie is that their leadership is justified in their multiple lies, after-all, they do it for a greater good. And they repeat that lie to themselves every time they hear their leaderships lies and they don't hold them accountable.
The reason they tell themselves this lie is people can't admit they've been lying to themselves their entire lives. They can't admit their own biases and bigotries dominate the real Christian Values they learned in Sunday School. Not the misrepresentations told to them from the pulpit these days, but the values of Christ; caring for those less fortunate, the elderly, the sick, the children, the poor, their fellow man.
If those that vote for the GOP recognize ever come to their senses and break out of their mass belief in their own Big Lie, maybe then this nation will be the nation it's capable of being.
On with the games!!
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