Greatest Lies and Truths of 2009
If you are eager for a recap of the flavor of the 2009 “debate” on health care reform, health care author and blogger, Maggie Mahar, reviews “The 10 Most Destructive Lies, and the 10 Most Constructive Insights, Suggestions, and Questions of 2009″ in her December 24th “Health Beat” column: (click here).
Overall, here’s one very sad lesson some of us have learned over the past year: the exponential increase in the casual willingness of so many politicians, media pundits, and average Americans to baldly lie rather than risk considering and being persuaded by others’ ideas. It used to be that democracy was about debating ideas in the hope that the best ones would emerge evident to most of us. Or if no ideas emerged with a clear consensus, then we at least give the benefit of the doubt to the will of the majority. Now politics for many is about the art of lying to put the opponent on the defensive and smearing attempts at constructive solutions without offering detailed alternatives of ones own (sorry, but “common sense” broad principles are specific legislative solutions). Even once a lie is called out, the damage is done, apologies are not made, or recants and “clarifications” are merely noted on the back of page 24. It started with discovery that dirty political campaigns work when the electorate is generally uninformed. Now it’s spread to 24/7 dirty legislative (or counter-legislative) campaigns.
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