Celebrating Lying

Olbermann was right on with this.

I have been engaged with some of my reactionary wingnut friends - who continue to fail to address a single item in the Olbermann commentary. They do their typical right wing dance of changing the topic, fallacious arguments, non-sequitors, ad hominems, and glittering generalities.

Bush is a sociopath and Cheney is a psychopath. When you have Republicans trying to fix yet another election, with bogus regitrations this time, it just goes to show you what level they are operating on. "We the people" really means we the Republican party who follow our own agenda and not the laws and constitutions of those before us.

We had a Prime Minister here a few years back (our equivalent of your President) that was so awful that the Parliament entered a Vote of Non Confidence and forced him to resign. I've checked and that's never been done in the US, but it has in many countries.

According to Wilkopedia, "Typically, when parliament votes no confidence, or where it fails to vote confidence, a government must either:

1. resign, or
2. seek a parliamentary dissolution and request a general election"

I've read so many comments by Americans who are dissatisfied with the current American government, its a shame this doesn't appear to be an option for you.

A poignant article for any who care to read it on, "How Good People Become Perpetrators".
http://www.zimbardo.com/downloads/2003%20Evil%20Chapter.pdf

An addictive personality will switch addictions and evade discovery until he/she is deserted to no other choice but to seek Truth. If somewhat sociopathic,as Bush seems to be, there are enough addictions lurking in disguised lies to last a lifetime inless his covers are pulled on a very cold day, and the cameras are rolling for a new kind of reality TV.

What is amazing is that the Amercian people actually voted him in, this time. I have a few friends in the iditiotic Republican group (not all Republicans, just those who don't think for themselves) who actually believed at one time, that Bush knew what he was talking about.

Keith's article is right on.

Thanks for bring Obermann to my attention, Will. A big question: How come this systematic lying (as a distorted feedback system that involves more players than the persons who tell the lie and those who believe it) always goes hand in hand with INCOMPETENCE. The Nazis were grossly incompetent, as bureaucrats (of course I'm comparing them to the true masters, the Cartesian French pigeonholers and the precise Swiss) and their architectural plans for the new Berlin went to hell, Auchwitz with all those slaves could barely break even profit-wise, they squandered key resources during the offensive against Russia in 1942, etc. The Nazis lost the war, really (they even killed their finest general, Rommel) the allies didn't win it. Cognitive dissonance (explored in Orwell's 1984 as people must in double bind believe lies that erase the lies of the past daily) resulted big time in the German people, as well as paranoia and distrust of their leaders whose BIG LIES could be believed (they were Lakoffian metaphorical conceptual handles that framed the world) but the little lies about few casualties and air planes not shot down took their toll on the Deutschland population, another contributing factor to losing the war.