Republicans think we're stupid, that we will believe their silly lies and distortions. They actually think we will buy stuff so lacking in logic, so at odds with observable facts as:
1. Ted Cruz says that the dysfunction in Congress is the fault of Democrats.
2. Paul Ryan says that the Obama administration supports a system that perpetuates poverty.
They seem to think that if they repeat these sound bites enough, they will become fact in the minds of the American people.
What worries me is that . . . they might be right.
Get your wealthy conservative gazillionaires to pay for enough tv ads to blanket the airwaves . . . and, at least in the minds of enough people to swing the elections, you create new facts, devoid of anything but repetitive sound bite recognition.
It might be different if we had more real journalists writing the news and opinion. Instead, we have corporate ownership of newspapers and radio and television stations in place of the good, old-fashioned dedicated journalists and individual or family ownership. Everything now goes to serve the interests of corporate America.
And let's hope Hillary Clinton can convince us that she's not just one of them. Or else I'm ready to join the "Ready for Elizabeth Warren" movement.
Ralph
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