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You assume that he has to tell the truth or that he is not telling the truth and that swing voters really care. People better off will vote Obama; people worse off will vote Romney and a little sliver right in the middle will just vote for the person they think will most likely win because they want to be on the winning side.
What you say makes me cringe. It sends a chill down my spine that the country I love so much, is so brainwashed with political ideology, that it can no longer see the forest for the trees, nor make good, clear, rational, logical, coherent decisions about its elected officials.
I cannot argue with anything you've just wrote. Your post speaks volumes about just how irrational we are, when it comes to putting somebody in the White House. How narrow minded the electorate has become and how it ignores reality in favor of the "truth" that it wants to believe, even when that "truth" simply does not exist.
I agree with you 100%. It is just that cut and dry - but my question is: WHY?
How did we get to be so shallow, so inept, so disconnected from reality, so blind and so unable to make good decisions based on real facts? There is actually 27% of the country that believes this President caused the 2008 economic implosion. I mean, come on! How did we reach a point where we are so blinded by political ideologues and their penchant for lies, that are willing to toss out common sense in broad daylight, when all the world knows better? We don't like to admit that we are a brainwashed culture - but the way we go about electing governing officials, clearly proves otherwise.
Trickle Down failed under Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43. Yet, you still have half the nation willing to support that failed economic postulate. The most balanced fiscal approach under Clinton, generated the biggest economic expansion in U.S. history, produced a projected multi-hundred billion budget surplus and created 20 million new jobs. What does the country decide to do? Go straight back to the failed theory of Trickle Down, only this time, with the Policy of Preemption leading the way into two wars that were never paid for and completely off the books.
We then found ourselves economically strained to the point of meltdown in the span of eight (8) years and we create negative economic momentum that will last for years after its point of instantiation. What do we do then? We attack the notion of full recovery, by threatening to go right back to the exact same economic theory that got us into this mess to begin with - all because we've become so politically myopic that we cannot see straight enough to make wise decisions.
At this point, I am of the frame of mind that we will get exactly what we deserve to get.