From gun rights to partial-birth abortion, she offers a haze of vague words and obfuscation
By David French @DavidAFrench
Let’s suppose for a moment that you’re a normal human being. And by “normal” I mean a person who keeps politics at a healthy distance. You’ve got kids, a challenging job, and thriving relationships. Your spare time is precious, so when you do get those few extra hours, you’re far more likely to spend them binge-watching Stranger Things on Netflix than brushing up on the latest trends in abortion legislation or on the text of unconstitutional municipal statutes.
So, as a matter of necessity, to make informed political decisions, you depend on candidates and members of the media to tell the truth. I mean that you depend on them not just to avoid bald-faced lies but also to be forthcoming, to accurately describe, as best they can, the issues and the meaning of any given controversy. At the very least, we demand that they not be deceptive, that they not exploit our understandable ignorance for partisan gain...........Read more
My Take - I've been saying this for years - everything you see on the news or read in the newspaper is a lie. Lies of commission for sure, but mostly lies of omission. It's the stuff they deliberately leave out that counts. Society is ignorant by design on the part of politicians, news people, activists, educators and most disturbing - by the choice of society's members themselves.
Ignorance is the natural state, because being ignorant merely means we just don't know. And when you consider just how much knowledge there is out there we're bound to be ignorant about a great many things. But ignorance is fixable by learning, and with modern communications these continued levels of ignorance is a choice making it an act of stupidity, and you can't fix stupid.
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