Frying Instead of Lying

Politicians should not be allowed to lie. Fact checking should be an official part of the campaign process, and when a politician is caught in a lie they should be severely punished and even banished from running from office.
The American people are frozen with fear, and they are listening to these politicians to get a sense of who they are, what they will do, how they will restore dignity and hope to the middle class and hopelessly impoverished.
The problem is, it is impossible to know what these fools stand for because they take every available opportunity to lie. They lie about their opponents to hurt them, they lie about themselves to make themselves look better.
Gingrich went on a rant about college students having it too easy today. Said they should work part time jobs and attend less expensive colleges so they can graduate sooner with less debt. He neglected to mention that his college education was financed by family members because he refused to work.
But being the scumbag that he is, he knew the mindless would line up behind his college students should work comments without ever hearing the truth about his own education. The truth comes after the fact and often from sources that spineless followers would never consult.
The point is, we are all hunkered down and afraid. Afraid for our futures, afraid for our homes, afraid of having no retirement and we need to know exactly what these politicians stand for so we can make an intelligent decision, one that we know gives us the best shot at getting hope back. That is impossible in a political climate that not only allows lying but condones it.
Voters need to elect a President who will protect them from corporations and politicians and banks and power brokers who are hell bent on taking every penny and every shred of decency from the people who break their backs making this country run. But that decision is impossible because the truth is obscured.
Politicians' comments are challenged every day and shown to be lies or misrepresentations or sensationalism and yet they keep on doing it because they are not held accountable.
Even worse, is when a bum like Gingrich calls President Obama the food stamp president he plays right into racial and class stereotypes of the worst kind. The kind that divide this country and threaten to burn it down in violence. And he gets away with it. He should have been jailed and tortured for that comment.
The Amercian public is suffocating, and the politicians who are supposed to represent them are playing games. Playing games with no interest in or concern for the little man who grinds out a life in fear and worry that results in disease and premature death.
These politicians are despicable, no less than dictators and despots who practice genocide and assassination of their own populations.