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The FEC and Supporting the Republican Party

 I spent 10 days in the United States.  I have no particular affinity for Americans. As an Englishman, they all appear to be Texans -- too big too loud and too rich.

Vail is not America, the same way London is not Britain, it's a tiny slice of the real thing.  Despite all that and because of the importance of America in world affairs you still have to pay attention.  One of the things that emerged is how much the Republican Party lies, do it brazenly, and largely unlike the Democrats who rather lie by omission they lie with a purpose.  How can genuine American conservatives support a movement that prefers an outright lie?

Two examples are both things that Trump did, the first was to go to Palestine, in Pennsylvania to make an act of presence after a terrible derailment and pass out bottled water and cans of beans that a friend had given him.  He arrived on his private jet and met actors (seriously they were actors since they were paid 100 dollars to be there) and then he flung water bottles and cans of beans.  20 minutes later he was back on his plane, gone.  He spent a total of 45 minutes on the ground.  Republicans will say big deal Democrats do the same thing! Yet despite News Max and Fox News insinuation nothing ever emerges.  Fox and Newsmax showed that Trump was compassionate...

Then another event.   Again Trump, when there was UWA labour unrest, Trump organized a fake union meeting using car workers from a friend's non-union shop, all holding pro-Trump, pro-union signs and holding a faking union drive.  Not only was this entire thing staged, and all the participants paid, but the stunt was all paid with donor money for a total of $20,000.  All this to create an entirely fake 30-second narrative.  The fake union drive was reported on Fox and Newsnax as the real thing, despite Fox and Newsmax knowing it was entirely staged, CBS even interviewed the participants who admitted that (a) they worked in a non-unions auto manufacturing plant (b) they were paid to be there, and (c) the union membership drive was fake, yet on the news that night and or several nights Fox and Newsmax said that Trump was pro-union.  

Assume that you are an educated American, you know these two events were frauds, it was the equivalent of going to see Spider-Man at the cinema.  Yet you still support the guy?

What is inconceivable is that Americans can dissociate the small lies from their desired truth.  They believe "Their" republican objectives. 

Very strange indeed

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