Old article, but the thought process and references to Alinsky are relevant today.
1 posted on
08/12/2016 8:56:20 AM PDT by
Truth29
To: Truth29
They lie because they have come to the conclusion there is no upside to telling unpleasant truths and not being re-elected as professional politicians who could not make such a cushy living doing something else, and there is no downside to telling bold-faced lies in order to get re-elected, because nobody calls them out on it, and they get re-elected anyway.
In a nutshell.
2 posted on
08/12/2016 9:05:39 AM PDT by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: Truth29
"There is a way that seemeth right to a man . . . but . . . ."
To: Truth29
Why Leaders Lie
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes.
Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails,
he is put down as a scoundrel.
- H. L. Mencken Chicago Tribune (23 May 1926)
7 posted on
08/12/2016 11:53:12 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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