POLITICAL INSANITY

If you know something that is not true, why would you tell people it is true? The people who do this must know they are compromising their credulity when they know all evidence prove what they are saying is false. The bigger question seems to be whom do they think is listening to them? I used to hang around with both a social and a family group that occasionally held dinner parties. As is common in such groups, neither liberals nor conservatives voice their political beliefs, sort of like what you tell your barber; nevertheless, everyone seems to know who are the liberals and who are conservatives and to what degree. Early on at a gathering of the group, I saw one of the conservatives clandestinely hand a folded up piece of paper to another of the conservatives, who immediately slip it into his pocket. Aware of something strange going on, I watched to see what would happen; that piece of paper traveled around the room and I could see some of them reading it and then returning it to their pocket. Although unable to account for its whereabouts all of the time, I was sure it made the rounds. After I first encountered of this activity, I noticed it was common to all subsequent gathering of the group—five or six times a year. There is no way of knowing what was on those pieces of paper but I suspected it was those kinds of lies. They are telling the lies to one another.

Now, I believe what I was seeing was a privatized form of Fox News. They are saying things that liberals would know are not true; thus, they would have no credulity in rational media. The people who listen to Glenn Beck, for example are a special group.  Fore example, Beck was standing in front of pictures of artwork found on the Rockefeller Center with a pointer. He was pointing to hammer and sickle shaped objects in a bas-relief carving and seriously stating that this was matter of fact proof that the Rockefeller Center had a communist association “right in the heart of Americas’ greatest city, New York City”. I read a comment posted on social media where a woman said Glenn Beck could make anything clear “if you gave him chalk and a chalk board”.  Of course, this is all so absurd it is asinine. Do you know that Beck takes in million of dollars in advertizing fees every year, which means he has many, many listeners. Why?

I just read a request asking me to click on a survey form if I agree with the idea that Obamacare is a failure. No, it is not! The truth is that the free enterprise system is a failure when it comes to health care; everyone knows that. Just, as everyone knows, the wealthy 1% of the population are not job creators, but I still see pleas to cut taxes on the rich because America need jobs. I see claims that voter fraud is rampant. That people on welfare are on drugs. I hear that welfare fraud is rampant. I hear that people who sleep on the streets should get up, go to Harvard, and get a job. I read Bob Livingston Newsletter Personal Liberty Digest; it is amazing that a person can read from cover to cover what the various writers have produced and not find one verifiable truth; concentration camps, government is hoarding food; Obama is coming to get your guns, all ad nauseum nonsense. What is going on? Has a large segment of our population in the United States gone completely mad? Rational people do not pass clandestine note from one to another at a dinner parties—or I am the one who is not rational?

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