Economic Stockholm Syndrome? Do Americans Still Worship "Job Creators"? -- Thom Hartmann

[erronis]

https://hartmannreport.com/p/economic-stockholm-syndrome-do-americans-9de

The billionaires robbed us blind for 44 years — and we thanked them for it... Will it still work for the GOP?

We’re about to embark on what will be one of the most interesting political, sociological, and media experiments of our lifetimes. It’ll answer the question: “Can Republicans still get away with lying to their own voters?”

Forty-four years ago, the Reagan administration — after winning the White House because they cut a criminal, treasonous deal with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to hold the American hostages until after the 1980 election — decided to take a second massive chance at deceiving the American voters.

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Back in the 1980s, this sextet of deceit worked; most Americans went along with Reagan’s mind-boggling tax cuts. Amazingly, the lie still worked in the early 2000s when George W. Bush repeated Reagan’s magic trick and again blessed his wealthy peers with trillions more in tax gifts while insisting the cuts would reinvigorate the economy via the shamanic “job creators.”

But this year, things got weird: Republicans and their rightwing media machine aren’t even trying to promote their lies from the ’80s. At least not seriously.

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Republicans, instead of promoting Reagan’s old schtick, are basically just telling the American people, “Screw you; get over it. This is what we do.”

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. That's a good point, don't let their deceptions fade from memory

Job creators my ass.

[mtairyguy]

2. A Carlin-ish evolution of the term...

From investors to risk takers to job creators. All for deception, facilitated by our media.