Dadoalex
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- Jan 11, 2021
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No, we're not talking about the good old political truth stretching.
This is about blatant lying. Bald faced lying.
Lying has become the primary political tool of the GOP. The party will lie blatantly, lie in the face of provable fact, and lies constantly about EVERYTHING.
Yes, democrats lie to but it's the old fashioned "his mouth is open" lying. Far different from what we see in the GOP.
Personally I place the period when lying became a foundation part of the GOP as 2002-2003 during Bush' runup to his war in Iraq. Specifically, Bush's 2003 SOTU and Colin Powell's perjurious testimony on Iraq's WMD to the UN.
9/11 taught the GOP one thing. Fear is the most powerful electoral motivator and nothing motivates fear like lies.
So they
Pinned 9/11 on Iraq so the fear and anger could be transferred from the politically ineffective effort in Afghanistan to a hatred of Iraq.
Accused Iraq of having WMD when all reason and logic said they didn't.
From there the "slippery slope" into Trumpism became a gentle glide that will leave the party doomed to the trash heap of history.
.
This is about blatant lying. Bald faced lying.
Lying has become the primary political tool of the GOP. The party will lie blatantly, lie in the face of provable fact, and lies constantly about EVERYTHING.
Yes, democrats lie to but it's the old fashioned "his mouth is open" lying. Far different from what we see in the GOP.
Personally I place the period when lying became a foundation part of the GOP as 2002-2003 during Bush' runup to his war in Iraq. Specifically, Bush's 2003 SOTU and Colin Powell's perjurious testimony on Iraq's WMD to the UN.
9/11 taught the GOP one thing. Fear is the most powerful electoral motivator and nothing motivates fear like lies.
So they
Pinned 9/11 on Iraq so the fear and anger could be transferred from the politically ineffective effort in Afghanistan to a hatred of Iraq.
Accused Iraq of having WMD when all reason and logic said they didn't.
From there the "slippery slope" into Trumpism became a gentle glide that will leave the party doomed to the trash heap of history.
.