Our government is corrupt.

[Savannahmann]

19. Yes our Government is Corrupt.

Worse, it is both parties that participate in that corruption. We lie to the people, they lie to the people. We do it to achieve a goal, a goal we think is best, but we get there by lies and disinformation nearly as badly as the Repugnicks.

An example. Fine. First, everyone knows that the ACA is a stepping stone for Single Payer. So in order to achieve that admirable goal, we had to create a system that is flawed, perhaps even fatally flawed. We had to design something that would fail. Only when it failed would Single Payer become the solution to the problem. Reform having been tried, and failed, single payer would be left.

So we take a page from ancient history, from one of the first people who lied to the citizens for their own good. Themistocles found that nobody believed him when he said that the Persians would return. So he lied to the people to get their support to defend against a much closer enemy, while really preparing for the return of the Persians. He lied to the people, to get their support, to save the people from a threat they did not believe in.

So this begs the question. How much of what we support is merely propaganda that our elected officials use to get our donations, and votes, so they can work on problems we don't see or care about? In the end, it comes down to trust. Republican voters trust the liars from their party more than the liars from our party. We trust the liars from the Democratic Party more than the liars from the Republican party. That they are both lying is understood at an instinctive level, or often a more cognizant level.

Yet even our liars are cheats too. Our Politicians voted with the Rethugs to eliminate the rules governing insider trading prohibitions for Politicians. In other words, if you were a congressman, and you knew that you and your fellows were going to vote to give money to the Military to buy Boeing Jets. You could buy stock in Boeing, knowing that the announcement of that contract would boost their stock price. You get rich, Boeing gets the contract, the military gets planes they want, probably want, Everybody wins, except the people who had invested in Lockheed Martin thinking their product was better and that they would get the contract.

In the end, your support for a party comes down to a question. Which liars will you support? It's a shame that we can't have a logical and honest debate about anything in this nation. We've been lying so long, that to admit the truth now, is virtually impossible.