Wednesday night, there were two rounds of GOP presidential debates. First, candidates polling at around one percent nationally had a shorter debate, followed by the frontrunners in a second debate. Both debates took place in an alternate reality, where facts are made up on the spot and history doesn’t matter.
Here are some of those lies, distortions, and misrepresentations.
1. The fake “forced…socialism” of Obamacare.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) said that the Democrats “forced Obamacare and socialism down our throats.” That ignores the fact that the Affordable Care Act is far from socialist; it was based on a plan implemented by Republican Mitt Romney in his state, and mirrors a proposal from the conservative Heritage Foundation. After all, Obamacare is based on expanding care through private health insurance plans. It’s worth noting that we do have socialism in our system; the Veterans Administration and Medicare, and Americans love both.
2. Retelling the myth of Ronald Reagan and the USSR.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claimed that the Russians wouldn’t be in Ukraine if Ronald Reagan were president. The problem is, during the entirety of Reagan’s tenure, the Russians were in Ukraine, under the auspices of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
3. The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate.
Jindal claimed the U.S. has the world’s highest corporate tax rate. On paper, the U.S. rate is actually the third-highest, and its effective tax rates—meaning what firms actually pay in practice—is among the lowest of developed countries.just a few to get you started how can you still believe and support these people they are doing this because some are just to blind to notice to deaf to hear anything but the red meat rhetoric and to loud to hear the voices of reason and i wonder under informed would it make any difference there is more than enough correct info out there and still they remain faithful to the party of stupid.
stupid is seeing the truth and hearing the truth and still believing the lies, the card carrying die hard oblivious.
