Brainwashed

With the Democratic Convention just hours away the amount of flat out made up completely false, COMPLETELY FALSE information coming from the Republicans is at a pace I have never seen in US politics following it closely for over 30 years.

Let's go back a few days. Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan during his acceptance speech blamed the President for a GM plant closing in Wisconsin. That was a claim that was almost immediately debunked when in reality it was getting to close on W's watch before Obama was even sworn in as president. Now today he claims that he never even said what he said.

Today the Republicans are making automated phone calls to anyone who won't hang up the phone claiming that President Obama has changed Medicare and that it will never be the same. Another false claim.

My question? If the Romney Ryan ticket can't tell the truth now, do we really think they will tell the truth once they would be elected. Anybody out there think that?

What ever happened to people just simply telling it like it is. Everyone stretches the truth now and then and politicians get a bit of an artistic license on both sides. But flat out making things up. When did that become accepted? Then you wonder why our kids don't tell us the truth? That is the true trickle down. When our leaders or presumptive leaders flat out lie, what should be expected by the rest of us? It is a sad erosion of our society.

What is even worse is that I received something over the weekend regarding the Affordable Health care Act. It was nearly an 11 minute video challenging point by point Obama care. It was a beautifully produced video professionally narrated. As I went through several of the preposterous assertions I decided to actually pull up the bill itself. Since the video gave specific pages and sections and quotes, I figured that they would be easy to find. I researched the first five claims which were in the first minute of the video. Not a single quote, not a single claim on the video was true.

I know that the Internet is not exactly a bastion of truth. What was more disturbing to me was that this video was sent by a friend. This friend sent me the video as if I were just supposed to believe it was true. Two points here: either my friend believed it as true and did not question a single point or she knew that it was false and thought I was actually stupid enough just to fall for was could only be considered a complete fabrication. Inotherwords she wants Obama and Obama care repealed so badly that she is willing to risk her own personal credibility and send this piece of fiction to a friend and pass it off as dangerous.

What is even more sinister is that we seem to be doomed to repeat the past. This is the same type of tactic that the Nazis used prior and during the Holocaust. Slickly produced propaganda that gets passed off as truth. You may think it is cool to send it off to your friends and pass it off as the truth. But when the propaganda turns against your way of life, your sex, ability to make a living or worship then it becomes an issue. But by then it will be too late.

Mr. Romney, Mr. Ryan if you really think you can do a better job than the President, just tell us why. Give us your plan for a better future and let us choose for ourselves. That is one thing I did not hear last week at the Republican convention; a plan for a better America. I heard a lot of Obama bashing, some of it pretty incoherent, but not a lot of planning for the future.

I did hear about American exceptionalism, whatever that is. But if we are so exceptional, how can you be running down the country as it stands right now and say that it is so great. If we are so exceptional why are you just not telling it like it is? You can't have it both ways. Ultimately, the American people are smarter than that.