The Truth Will Not Out, on Its Own = "test of whether reality matters"

[L. Coyote]

Was the USA ever sane? First, question your own assumptions, I was taught!

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The Truth Will Not Out, on Its Own
By Robert Parry - August 13, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/081309.html


The right-wing fury at town hall meetings over health care and the Republican obstruction of any serious reform in Washington are not just symptoms of a complex debate on an issue packed with powerful special interests; it is a test of whether reality matters in the United States.

When a supposedly “moderate” Republican like Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa endorses the crazed view of the “deathers” who claim that President Barack Obama’s health-care plan would promote euthanasia, it is clear that the nation’s problem is bigger than any one legislative battle, even one as big as health reform.

The overriding question has become whether the United States – as a representative democracy – is on the verge of losing its sanity.

And this is not the first time this question has arisen recently. Only seven years ago, much of the American population was persuaded that Iraq was some lethal threat to the United States.

Then, there was fear-mongering about Iraq somehow sending small remote-controlled airplanes across the Atlantic Ocean and over the United States to spray chemical and biological weapons on the American people. There were wildly exaggerated (indeed, false) alarms about Iraq developing a nuclear bomb that would be given to al-Qaeda.

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[emulatorloo]

1. Excellent analysis - K&R n/t

[niyad]

2. "LOSING" its sanity??? no, it lost it a very long time ago.