Both sides of the political aisle claim that the other side persistently lies, but pundit Ben Shapiro has explained in various forums that the Left lies as a matter of policy, when the lies "point to a Greater Truth." Hence, they maintain a ridiculous lie even when it has been proven false, because the general impression (which they consider to be the Greater Truth) is more important than the detail of the immediate factual lie. When I heard this my mind reeled with examples of this principle. It explains so much. Consider:
"Bush lied." Anyone with a three digit IQ has long ago realized that the White House, Congress, and our major allies all had basically the SAME INFORMATION about the existence or non-existence of WMD's in Iraq. They all concluded - incorrectly, as it turns out - that Saddam did have them (because they couldn't imagine why he would act like he did, when in fact he didn't). But Libs have the problem of their own exalted leaders in Congress (Pelosi, Reid, HRC, Kerry, Biden) voting for the invasion. So they cover up their own votes with the fiction that "Bush lied" and deceived everyone - which is a preposterous lie, still repeated as though it were Gospel.
"The earth is warming!" Well, although there appears to be a long term trend of warming, there really hasn't been any significant warming for the past 15 years or so (unless you cook the books or point out aberrations to "prove" the general point). They actually thought no one would notice when they changed "global warming," to "climate change."
"Women earn only 73 cents for every dollar earned by a man." Every credible study conducted in the past 20 years concludes that women with comparable credentials, doing comparable work and having comparable responsibilities, and working similar hours are making about the same as their male counterparts. The "73 cents" lie results when you ignore different career choices, hours worked, credentials, and intentional employee decisions; in short it is a blatant lie, repeated earnestly and often by the Left.
"American public education is under-funded!" This provable lie (private, parochial, and charter schools provide a better education at lower cost), is nothing but a sop to the NEA and AFT, and even people who have unfortunately been educated in state schools are smart enough to see it. And yet every Democrat politician in the country promises to increase Education funding, as though that would improve anything more than the drastic increases in funding we've seen over the past 50 years.
"The key to bringing The Poor into the middle class is Government-provided PRE-SCHOOL!" Again, this is provably false, as "Operation Head Start," the Government's first broad-based pre-school program, has failed spectacularly to show any academic improvements in inner-city public schools, despite tens of billions spent on it over several decades. Indeed, even the Federal Government's own studies show NO DIFFERENCE in academic performance of Headstart "grads" after third grade. But government pre-schools will provide tens of thousands of marginally qualified poor women with government jobs and free babysitting, thus guaranteeing another generation of reliable Democrat votes, at taxpayer-expense.
"A higher minimum wage will reduce Income Inequality!" Ignoring for a moment the fact that "income inequality" is NOT a problem, but rather the natural result of varying degrees of success in our society, even the Democrats in Congress KNOW THAT A HIGH MINIMUM WAGE IS A BAD IDEA, as evidenced by the fact that they didn't even bring it up when they controlled the WH and both houses of Congress for the two years after Barry was elected. In fact, a higher MW will INCREASE income inequality by denying jobs to high school dropouts (mainly minority yoots), and leaving them, statistically, even worse off than they are now.
"High deficits are a GOOD thing!" Right. How are those "shovel ready projects" working out for ya?
"Bush lied." Anyone with a three digit IQ has long ago realized that the White House, Congress, and our major allies all had basically the SAME INFORMATION about the existence or non-existence of WMD's in Iraq. They all concluded - incorrectly, as it turns out - that Saddam did have them (because they couldn't imagine why he would act like he did, when in fact he didn't). But Libs have the problem of their own exalted leaders in Congress (Pelosi, Reid, HRC, Kerry, Biden) voting for the invasion. So they cover up their own votes with the fiction that "Bush lied" and deceived everyone - which is a preposterous lie, still repeated as though it were Gospel.
"The earth is warming!" Well, although there appears to be a long term trend of warming, there really hasn't been any significant warming for the past 15 years or so (unless you cook the books or point out aberrations to "prove" the general point). They actually thought no one would notice when they changed "global warming," to "climate change."
"Women earn only 73 cents for every dollar earned by a man." Every credible study conducted in the past 20 years concludes that women with comparable credentials, doing comparable work and having comparable responsibilities, and working similar hours are making about the same as their male counterparts. The "73 cents" lie results when you ignore different career choices, hours worked, credentials, and intentional employee decisions; in short it is a blatant lie, repeated earnestly and often by the Left.
"American public education is under-funded!" This provable lie (private, parochial, and charter schools provide a better education at lower cost), is nothing but a sop to the NEA and AFT, and even people who have unfortunately been educated in state schools are smart enough to see it. And yet every Democrat politician in the country promises to increase Education funding, as though that would improve anything more than the drastic increases in funding we've seen over the past 50 years.
"The key to bringing The Poor into the middle class is Government-provided PRE-SCHOOL!" Again, this is provably false, as "Operation Head Start," the Government's first broad-based pre-school program, has failed spectacularly to show any academic improvements in inner-city public schools, despite tens of billions spent on it over several decades. Indeed, even the Federal Government's own studies show NO DIFFERENCE in academic performance of Headstart "grads" after third grade. But government pre-schools will provide tens of thousands of marginally qualified poor women with government jobs and free babysitting, thus guaranteeing another generation of reliable Democrat votes, at taxpayer-expense.
"A higher minimum wage will reduce Income Inequality!" Ignoring for a moment the fact that "income inequality" is NOT a problem, but rather the natural result of varying degrees of success in our society, even the Democrats in Congress KNOW THAT A HIGH MINIMUM WAGE IS A BAD IDEA, as evidenced by the fact that they didn't even bring it up when they controlled the WH and both houses of Congress for the two years after Barry was elected. In fact, a higher MW will INCREASE income inequality by denying jobs to high school dropouts (mainly minority yoots), and leaving them, statistically, even worse off than they are now.
"High deficits are a GOOD thing!" Right. How are those "shovel ready projects" working out for ya?
