The people who can actually watch an hour of Fox News and not be horrified at the volume of half-truths, spin and out-and-out lies really do believe it to the point that they spill out into the real world and see "facts" and "logic" as the fake world (or "fake" America if you speak Palin).
The sheer volume of complete nonsense that these people spew and not only say but have very apparently conditioned themselves to believe is stunning. Here we sit in a stalled economy. Why? Because for the better part of a generation - MY generation - we have seen the gains of productivity decoupled from wages and incomes and concentrated in the economic stratosphere. The economy is NOT stalled because assholes like Mittens and Georgie Pordgie don't have enough tax breaks!! The economy is stalled because the people who NEED the money to spend it - ie. the working classes and middle classes - do not get the same percentage of the overall pie any longer.
The math is simple, but apparently the logic is too "biased" for many to grasp. If I have $100 and you have $100,000, then I am incapable of buying the $500 car or the $5000 car while you could buy both. But the problem is you will only buy one - if you are worried about what the other members of the $100,000 club will say, you buy the $5000 car...on the other hand, if you value those $1's more than opinions, you will buy ONE of the $500 cars (hell, maybe even TWO of them). But here's the problem - there are MILLIONS of us with $100 for which the fruits of the economy lie out of reach and that makes the economy grind to a halt.
Instead of realizing that 50% of a growing and vibrant economy would be better than 99% of a stagnated and shrinking one, the super rich and their lapdog politicians in all parties continue to bleat out the platitudes that we would all be better off if we just keep giving MORE to those who already are not spending it, even though they CAN and everyone else CANNOT.
The worst part of this whole mess is the timidity of the Democratic Party in the face of absolute treason on the part of the Republican Party. The duty is supposed to be to support and defend the Constitution of the United States...instead it is to support and defend the tax bracket of the sugar daddy du jour and if that means selling out our right to free and open elections or disenfranchising large blocs of voters or just turning a blind eye to the recalcitrance of one half of the aisle, then so be it. Without bold action and a clear break from the last 30 years of failed trickle down / flood up voodoo, we have little to no hope of avoiding a lost decade or more in the exact same muck we find ourselves in now...truly depressing.
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