Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic talks about one of my pet peeves:
Stop Acting Like It’s Okay When Our Leaders Deliberately Mislead Us
Can we at least agree that the American people deserve the truth? That governing ourselves requires getting accurate information from the people who we elect? That their function is to represent us? And that they have no right to lie or mislead?
Opposing mendacity ought to be a no-brainer.
What I see instead is a mainstreaming of the notion that it isn’t a big deal for a political candidate, an elected official, or an appointee to lie or deliberately mislead.
President Obama knew his rhetoric about the Affordable Care Act was misleading, and that many people who bought insurance on the individual market would be forced to get new policies when Obamacare made their policies illegal. The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page thinks that Obama knowingly lied, but he isn’t that upset about it, because “that’s one of those political lies, you know.”
One of the things that makes Vile Progs vile is their attitude towards the truth. It is similar to taqiyya, the Islamic practice of deceiving unbelievers.
Government lies and secrecy are incompatible with democracy. Democracy is premised upon the idea of an informed citizenry voting for what is in the best interests of themselves and the nation. The goal is government by consensus.
That model cannot work if the citizens are deliberately lied to or kept in the dark. Yes, there will always be “low-info” voters who will be swayed by demagogues to vote against their own interests. Stupid people will always be with us. (God loves stupid people, that’s why he made so many of them.)
A government run solely by the “elites” is a government of conceit – a conceitocracy. It is based on the premise that I can run your life better than you can. Father knows best.
The so-called elites define membership as “us”, and then begin to narrow the definition of “us” until democracy becomes aristocracy and then turns to oligarchy and finally tyranny.
We live in what is supposed to be a constitutional republic founded on democratic ideals. I’d kinda like to keep it. Lies and secrecy are a poor foundation for any government.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. – John 8:32
The Crawdad Hole 
The “Master of the Plantation” always believed he knew best, too.
Slaves are low-info types.
And it was the ‘Uncle Toms’ who saw to it they stayed that way.
Who are today’s UTs? Besides the two ‘reverends’, I mean’?
Anyone who says Obama knows best.
😉
From the comments:
I lived thru the Nineties and I stayed sober the entire time the Big Dawg was in office. The media hated him. They still do.
Yeah… WMD’s
They all lie…. And they should be held accountable for the damage they cause… And I suppose not all consequences of lying are equal.
I think blaming the sexual revolution on Bill Cllinton is a bit of a stretch. The Oval Office has accommodated many a womanizer.
I understood the likeable scalawag factor in play when Dems continued supporting BC during his inglorious years. I also thought some in the GOP were ridiculously over the top and hypocritical. But I still thought the general acceptance and approval of Bill’s indiscretions would some day come back and bite us in the butt. And now today we have huge chunks missing.
I wish we could sue politicians for breach of contract.
Specially like this, when it’s documented that they were lying to us.
The Obots just can’t stop with the insane lies. Look at the comments to the Atlantic article. It isn’t really a lie because the policies were junk. Or it isn’t lying because the insurance companies are evil. Etc. They can’t even get past the kool-aid fog to grapple with such a simple concept.
They can either claim it’s not lying, or stand there with fingers in ears yelling over and over, “Nah, nah, nah”!
That’s another one of the lies.
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2013/10/substandard-plans-offered-by-bad-apple.html
Also, I find it amusing that Obama calls the insurance co’s that sold the so called sub-par policies “bad apples”. However, he’s fine with forcing us to buy insurance from the same bad apples.
That bit about the “junk” policies being cancelled bugs me. The crap Obamacare is trying to foist onto the unsuspecting public is even worse junk, just expensive junk. If your monthly insurance bill equals your take home pay does thant make it not junk?
Anthony Weiner complained that he would have won the election if it hadn’t been for the internet.
Well, duh. It comes under the heading, “freedom of speech”.
Well, he may be right. If not for the internet he couldn’t tweet pictures of his junk all over the world. And if he didn’t do that, because there was no internet, he may have. Won, that is.
In the old days if you wanted to flash your badger you had to walk around in a raincoat.
Meanwhile, over at Vile Prog Central, these are the headlines “they don’t want me to miss” at dKos. Otherwise known as the alternative universe. Really, they have nothing better to write about ?
When one is dangling from a rope hanging from a helicopter hovering over an active volcano it is important one’s necktie be correctly aligned with one’s shirt-buttons. EVERYBODY knows that!
OT
My kid’s AP history teacher has a Gadsden flag on the classroom wall. Heh.
good for the teacher
**Likey**
When Obama lied about Rezko and Rev Wright, it was no big surprise to me when Obama voted FOR Patriot act after promising to Fillibuster it!! June 2008 as Senator.
The vile progs defended those lies as necessary to elect him.
So, now he’s POTUS & what did anyone expect?
Did they expect truth honesty and backbone now?
I am amazed that there are still Americans who are now just figuring him out.
That bunch is a very gullible group.
I know a few of them.
He had a chance to impress me on the Telecom Immunity legislation. He did not disappoint me, I already knew he was a snake… He must’ve known that even if he had impressed me with a different vote I still wouldn’t have voted for him – but at least he would’ve been able to impress me once.
Obama lost me when he played the race card on Bill and Hillary. The Big Dawg may be a lot of things but a racist isn’t one of them.
^THIS^
Yep
This.
And then Bill lost me when he went out & lied at the 2012 DNC convention & on the campaign trail to help the same guy who played the race card on him & his wife to steal my vote in 2008.
I’m with angienc.
Actually, he lost me the first time when all those sealed divorce records of every one of his opponents were magically unsealed and they kept withdrawing from the US Senate race. I still cannot understand why more people didn’t have more questions. But then they were probably kept out of the debates, etc.
He then really lost me when he lied to his older AA volunteers telling them he had to “let them go” because he wasn’t allowed to have volunteers working in his campaign – that he had been ordered to pay his workers – and that he knew these SS recipients’ benefits would be affected by taking cash. He then, of course, took on young, college educated, mostly non-AA workers paid and unpaid. This before he had even announced. All those volunteers who had done so much work for him in local and state campaigns were thrown under the bus before there even was a bus.
Ms Hillary has a new charity/non-profit/LegUpForChelsea group. Ceiling Cracks or something?
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/no-ceilings-full-participation-project
I think I’m on my last nerve with her.
Facepalm, just realized, Chelsea Clinton is the Melissa Rivers of politics, both are untalented and would have never known their names had they not had famous families. And that’s not their fault either. Feeling so sorry for both young ladies now as the dysfunction continues 😦
Ouch. But true.
That’s no charity. That’s a marketing campaign to get in front of the coming sexism when she declares. Good luck with that, Mrs. Clinton.
I was experimenting with my crack pot today. It’s supposed to be teriyaki beef and rice. It’s more like teriyaki rice pudding.
Not one of my better concoctions.
You should probably stop cooking crack in the crack pot.
Today’s Winning Comment!!!!
I was going to say – you must have some Crack problem if you need a pot to cook it in.
Lots of guys my size have a crack problem. I usually wear extra-long shirts to keep it covered.
I’ve had many crockpot fails, I don’t think rice, pasta or other potentially gooey food items are supposed to be added at the beginning? I know my husband’s had great luck using my fails as caulk 😀
My honey has recently taken to not adding pasta to her crockpotted “pasta fazool”. Wow! It is fantastic!
struggled with this one for a long time….until some one told me….just slightly under cook the rice and set it aside with a lid on….cook everything that you want in a wok, also known as a crack pot, and then add the rice but only for about 2 minutes…at the most because by then the wok is very hot…usually turns out very good…don’t think terryaki beef takes too well to a cracked crock pot…
Cook the rice separately, always.
Unless it’s paella.
A clown with a voice.
very funny….also made me want to go back and listen to the great Ben E King original…
blood suckers…
It is really a challenge not to loathe the people in charge right now. In fact, I give up.
I could easily be a rage-a-holic. That’s why I take Fukitol® every day.
when the video becomes available is it a must see
Judge Jeanine’s opening statement rips backtrack a new one
I want her for attorney general
thanks to rev amy
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2013/11/01/safeway-rejects-obamacare/
expect to see a lot more of this
MYIQ
you must be doing something wrong. you were not on the banned list from reddit
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/02/reddit-politics-bans-weasel-zippers/
I feel . . so . . . inadequate.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/02/dem-rep-steve-cohen-tells-americans-worried-about-effects-of-obamacare-get-over-it/
how long before this simple SOB is up for re election?
My mom calls and says “Did you change your clocks?”
“Why? Did they poop?”
“That’s not funny!”
If you think about it, ValJar’s Twitter is pretty telling as to who runs the WhiteHouse
Twitter handle, ‘scuse me.
She probably got all PO’d at @Hillaryis44 when it was simply hillaryis44.org and thought “not so fast”. I have NO DOUBT she sees herself s the REAL first woman President.