Will this be Trumpty Dumpty's fall off the wall campaign promise lie?
((When he was running for president, Trump told “
60 Minutes” in 2015 that everyone would win from his health care replacement.
“I am going to take care of everybody,” Trump said. “I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.”
More recently,
in January, Trump vowed “insurance for everybody,” but congressional Republicans have taken to guaranteeing “access” to health care, rather than health care itself, meaning if individuals have the money to pay for insurance, they can get it.))
White House Refuses To Guarantee People Won't Lose Health Insurance From Repeal | The Huffington Post
Such a big deal was made about Obama's "you can keep your coverage" so how is Trump going to dissappear his huuuuge promise to provide insurance for everybody - cheaper and beautiful he promised?
For some unfathomable reason that seems to defy both conventional wisdom and common sense, the liars who tell the biggest lies have good reason to believe that they can tell virtually any whopper they please and plenty of people will believe them without question.
Take televangelists, for example. Not only are the airwaves full of them, there are new ones coming along all the time. In fact, they've been around for generations. And even though they routinely get caught in both financial and sexual scandals, it doesn't seem to stop people from sending them what little money they have which allows the televangelists to live in opulence even as their believers barely manage to scrape by.
Look at Bernie Madoff. He wasn't some guy who misappropriated a couple of hundred thousand dollars. No, he cheated people to the tune of around $18 BILLION.
Look at Enron. It was a Texas company with a stellar reputation which had revenues in 2000 of over a hundred billion dollars. It was also a massive fiction and a fraud perpetrated by men at the highest levels of the company. They had everyone fooled.
How about the Iraq War. Yup, Iraq had WMDs, and it was SUCH a clear and present danger to the USA that we just HAD to attack despite the fact that they had no blue water navy, no ICBMs, no long range bombers, and there was no real proof that they had WMDs. Yet, despite a no fly zone which had existed over most of Iraq since the first Gulf War, Bush, Cheney et. al. managed to convince enough people that Iraq was such a profound threat to America.that we actually invaded the country to put a stop to a threat that didn't truly exist even as we turned our collective backs on the ones who attacked America barely a year and a half earlier. Who could believe that?
Individual people get duped all the time in their personal lives. They get cheated in business. They routinely believe false advertising. And every once in a while, a big enough fraud comes along that it can take in millions of people. Unfortunately, in a presidential election year, because almost half of all eligible voters sit out the election, the winning candidate only needs to convince about 25-26% of eligible voters to either pull the lever for him or vote against his opponent, and he can win even when, like in 2000 and 2016, he looses the popular vote.
It wouldn't be so bad if the con job ended on election day. But alas, as if to add insult to injury, or perhaps in an effort to convince us that we're really sleeping and are perhaps having a dream pushed along by a TV with a malfunctioning sleep timer, it has continued since with one outrageous false claim being made by Trump, one right after the other in such quick succession that we don't even have the opportunity to catch our collective breath from one outrageous lie to the next and incorporate them into our consciousness before a few more lies come along. Consequently, we're living in what can best be described as the never ending con, or, at the very least, a con job with no end in sight. Yeah, that really IS a nightmare.
