THE BIG LIE

The Big Lie

Are you old enough to remember the Nazis? No, no, not the wacky and oh so funny Nazis of Hogan’s Heroes, the real Nazis that rose mass murder to a scientific endeavor and wanted to rule the world as the Master Race. Perhaps you also forgot that the term NAZI was an acronym that stood for the National SOCIALIST German Worker’s Party. It is no accident that the word Socialist always shows up when you examine fascist, despotic and repressive Governments. Perhaps you also remember the infamous quote by that lovable Nazi Propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, to wit: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
The above quote came to mind as I, and others, have watched the Obama administration with abject fascination when time after time it gears up to push through its latest program to secure ever more power to further an agenda that has never been fully explained to the citizens other than, “Hope and Change.” The above quote came to mind because of the modus operandi used by the administration’s Intelligentsia when it is charged by the President to carry out his latest political command. I have noticed that the intelligentsia always employs the Big Lie to further the administrations goals in such a manner that it seems to follow the Goebbels cynical observation about the Big Lie like a cookbook recipe. Let’s look at some of the Big Lies that the Government has advanced to either manufacture or take advantage of a “crisis” to further their opaque political agenda. The Financial Meltdown, Man Caused Global Warming, Broken Health Care System and the Broken Immigration System, are just some of the really big “crisis” that come to mind. If one examines these “crisis” objectively, some common traits soon become apparent when the Governmental propaganda machine, ably commanded by the Joseph Goebbels clone, i.e., White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, revs up to full speed to advance the latest Big Lie. The first common trait is that the Government itself precipitated the “crisis” by advancing a Governmental action that was enabled either by design or fortuitous circumstances. In the case of the Financial Meltdown, the Government caused the crisis by repealing the Glass-Steagall act to enable a complicit Congress to force the Financial community to lend Government backed money to any and all Americans regardless of financial means so that all may own their own home. The Governmental propaganda machine then hypes the resulting “crisis” to a compliant fourth estate until the country demands swift Government action to “fix” the “crisis”. Of course the Governmental action required to “fix” the problem always results in the Federal Government acquiring more political power to affect ever more control over the citizens and country, but never mind that, the Government will “fix” the problem for us all and the “crisis” will be ended. This kind of Governmental activity has a scientific basis. It is called a Physiological Feed-forward System in which feed-forward control can be likened to a learned anticipatory response (Cass Sunstein’s Choice Architecture creation) to known cures (Government control). Brothers and Sisters, the Obama administration is not incompetent, the administration’s Intelligentsia are cynically using scientific principals to force an opaque political agenda upon an unwilling country. The second common trait in using the Big Lie is that Government always blames a selected target for the crisis to justify the Government taking control over a vital new portion of the country. In the case of the Financial Meltdown, Wall Street Fat Cats and an out of control, out of date free market system is to blame for the Financial Meltdown “crisis” that requires complete Governmental control in order that this “crisis” will never be allowed to happen again.
The Big Lie of Man Caused Global Warming is that Mother Earth is dying because of warming of the environment that will destroy us all due to mankind’s uncontrolled activity. The truth is that man’s activities account for less that 1% of a natural warming trend. The Big Lie for the Health Care System is that it is broken. The truth is that the US Healthcare System is the best health care system the world has ever seen and is not broken, it only costs too much because it is the best in the world. The Big Lie for Immigration System is that it is broken. The truth is the Government will not enforce a perfectly functional Immigration System thereby making it appear that the Immigration System is broken. If all of this doesn’t scare you, you are fearless.