Maybe it's because I'm old that I see through a lot of what's happening today. This business about Speaker Ryan is pure manipulation. They are using authority to manipulate people into acceptance. So when Speaker Ryan says something, people are more likely to believe it. It is hardwired in the human mind to defer to authority.
But it doesn't pass the truth test. It really doesn't make any difference who says it. If it is wrong, then it is wrong. There's nothing wrong nor immoral about thinking for yourself. Actually, "democracy" requires it. Totalitarians hate it.
Perhaps the audience isn't oldtimers, but for the younger folks. But for the younger set, it will be they who will have to fight in the wars these people have been getting us into. Biden voted to go into Iraq, as did Hillary. Oldtimers don't fight the wars. The younger ones get sucked into it.
The younger folks will also be the ones who will have to suffer the longest if this all goes badly. It does look that way now.
The media don't get anything right. The Democrats have challenged the last several GOP victories. Yet people like former Speaker Ryan act as if it is the unpardonable sin to ask questions. Democracy requires it, totalitarians hate it. "Democracy" dies in darkness, while they spread the darkness.
Challenges are not "unprecedented". It might be unprecedented for the GOP to stand on its own hind legs for once and talk back at these liars. The Dems have not been so timid, even when they don't have anything valid to complain about. The GOP just sits back and takes that, but it when it is their turn to challenge, all they can do is cave in.
That's what makes people like Ryan suspicious. They talk the same way Democrats do. If they don't want the questions they like to say the equivalent of "shut up". If you don't speak up now, you may lose the right forever. Don't let them tell you to shut up.
Their entire game is about deception. If we cannot overcome the deception, we've had it.
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