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Old 01-21-2015, 05:55 PM   #819
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken View Post
For Paul Ryan, it's not about actually imposing a budget, it's about repeating something that's outrageous enough times that it becomes accepted:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ.../fiscal-policy
Uh, The Big Lie as in the Mein Kampf

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about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

or as Goebbels is falsely accused of stating.

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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
He was too smart to state this in public.

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“One should not as a rule reveal one’s secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again.
http://bytwerk.com/gpa/falsenaziquotations.htm

It's sad to see people eating up this misinformation and adopting ideas that are against their best interests.

Some could say that I've crossed the line here but I think that American politics has crossed the line as well.
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