Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Monday, December 9, 2013

“All politicians lie … so what?”

This is one of the current Democrat talking points when confronted with Obama’s bald-faced lies about the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare. 

So when he said that you could keep your plan, keep your doctor, and everybody’s premiums would go down it’s now okay for Democrats to acknowledge that he lied.  Proudly.   

For a while, his supporters tried to cover up Obama’s lies with a technicality.  They claimed he didn’t actually lie because no one ever told him that wasn’t the truth.  That’s the same approach they’ve used about the IRS, Fast & Furious, and Benghazi – nobody told Obama what was really going on. 

Really?  That’s like when the White House press office claimed years ago Obama never met his Kenyan uncle here illegally. Now they claim they put out that info without ever asking Obama, who more recently said he stayed with that uncle for a while when he was at Harvard. Oops …

That’s just so Nixonesque.  This all takes “plausible deniability” to a whole new level. 

However, there are ample reports that his administration knew early on in Obama’s first term that none of his promises about ObamaCare were true.  He had to know as well, but that didn’t stop him from repeating them at every opportunity.     

Democrats now have a new approach – of course he lied, but it doesn’t matter because all politicians lie.  Besides, telling lies to pass the ACA and to get re-elected should be viewed in the context of doing what’s right for America.  And in that bigger picture – and for the greater good –Obama did the right thing by lying. 

I’ll admit this new tactic caught me off guard.  It’s so outrageous it’s brilliant.  It taps into our popular culture where there’s no right or wrong, no taboos, and no shame.  It’s the ultimate expression of the ends justifying the means – the bedrock of Progressivism.   

I thought I’d seen it all when the Prevaricator in Chief – Bill Clinton – said:  “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is… “  

But this is new ground.  It’s exciting and breathtaking.  Politicians can now lie as enthusiastically as Obama, because everyone knows they lie anyway, so you can’t hold them accountable. 

It’s open season on the truth.  You don’t need to tell the truth anymore, once you establish that others like you can’t be trusted.  You’re innocent by association; a first. 

In the end, what’s the big deal?  Who are we to judge someone else? Saying whether something is right or wrong, or the truth or a lie, is so … well … judgmental.  

And since this is about Obama, it’s probably racist, too.  Wait for that shoe to drop  …    

What’s wrong with making promises you know can’t be kept?  Breaking or not enforcing laws you don’t agree with?  Not honoring agreements?  Tossing your allies under the bus?  

It’s just politics.  And all politicians lie.  So what?  

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