(October 5, 2015 at 3:54 pm)lkingpinl Wrote:(October 5, 2015 at 3:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: GOP Politicians are lying assholes.
Fixed it for you. Brian, seriously though, politics in itself is all about lying, misleading, cheating and dirty tactics. It's ugly on both sides.
I agree that all politicians in the USA (I can't speak for others) seem to be corrupt sleazeballs, and that our political process has driven off the rails, but I don't see 1/10th as much of the truly heinous stuff on the Democrats' side as I do from the GOP.
At least once upon a time they had the decency to at least try to hide their corporate owners' influence. Now companies are literally handing them pre-written bills to pass.
What bothers me most is the propaganda efforts that (successfully!) convince so many Americans of things that are simply not true. Just trying to have a conversation about commerce regulations, civil rights, or economics guarantees an avalanche of bullshit, and I find that 90% of the time the overt bullshit is coming from my Republican friends/relatives. Easy example: "Obama is a socialist, Muslim, anti-business pseudo-hippie who wasn't even born in America".
The one that tends to get my goat the most, after having worked as an environmental scientist, is when they repeat corporate propagandists who've convinced them that it's the environmentalists, not the for-profit polluters, who "have a dangerous agenda".
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