| Who will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth on the budget deficit? "We all know how democracy is supposed to work. Politicians are supposed to campaign on the issues, and an informed public is supposed to cast its votes based on those issues, with some allowance for the politicians' perceived character and competence, BUT Voters are often misinformed, and politicians aren't reliably truthful. Still, we like to imagine that voters generally get it right in the end, and that politicians are eventually held accountable for what they do.... Has our political system been so degraded by misinformation and disinformation that it can no longer function? The outright falsehoods, tend to be politically motivated. have maintained the same rhetoric even as the deficit has plunged... READ ON... |
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