But because the corporate media won't explain this ("it would seem partisan to point out facts inconvenient to Republicans," they whine), most Americans don't realize that the whole "health care debate" has little to do with health care -- it's really about cutting that 15 percent increased Obamacare tax on top-end capital gains income.
But because Republicans keep repeating the Big Lie that they're trying to get "more and better and cheaper" health care to Americans, most Americans don't realize it's really about a tax cut for the GOP donor class.
The success so far of this first half of the Big Lie technique should warn us loudly about the potential for GOP success with phase two, which begins now. Fox News is enthusiastically repeating the Republican lies from the Rose Garden Thursday, and right-wing hate radio is falling into line. Republican voters who live in the right-wing media bubble will absolutely believe these lies.
The only hope for Democrats to disrupt this process is to challenge the Big Lie and call it exactly that. The message needs to be simple ("It's a Big Lie -- it's really about cutting taxes on billionaires!"), repeated over and over again, and amplified by every media available, as most of the corporate TV media won't report on this in any honest way.
The entire agenda of the GOP has been, since the Reagan revolution (and, arguably, since the election of Harding, with the exception of Eisenhower), to exclusively serve the interests of the top 1 percent, while bringing along the rubes with "god, gays, and guns." And Democrats, while tacking toward the interest of the working class, need to point that out at every opportunity.
"Trumpcare -- The Big Lie" could be turned into the political equivalent of a bumper sticker and put everywhere. And the lies from the Rose Garden need to be challenged now, tomorrow, and every single day for the next 2 years by every elected Democrat in America by pointing out the reality of what's happening.
Otherwise, get ready for another 3 years of GOP rule.
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