More dangerous than Trump

Many decades ago George Orwell wrote a great essay called olitics and the English language. It demonstrated how politicians use language to obfuscate and mistate their strategies and intentions. He later wrote the novel 1984 showing what happens when leaders in control simply mistate fax and lie. Now we have of course Donald Trump who seems incapable of not lying. But with him it seems obvious so why does he have a acceptance and approval of Republicans in general. Well some or die hard Republicans and would support him in all cases. Others have been called low information voters referring to a tendency of many to not dig into facts. But what we clearly have now is misinformation voters. These are voters who get their "facts and information" from duplicitous sources. One is of course trump but another is FOXNews, our current version of Pravda, and probably the worst is the Internet in which invented facts cascade through blogs and websites gaining currency has a ricochet through cyberspace. There becomes an exists an alternative reality that is obviously quite persuasive period

One of the great purveyors of deception is the radical libertarian right exemplified by the Koch brothers and their organizations and those aligned with them such as the Club for Growth which should be more accurately named the Club for Greed. They promote and sponsor organizations with highly deceptive names such as the" Americans for Prosperity". Now that sounds pretty good but what are their real aims? If they truly disclosed their goals it would be called Plutocrats and Kleptocrats seeking to eliminate social security, Medicaid ,Medicare ,operation Headstart, SNAP and any other social welfare program. Ultimately, they wish to reduce the federal government to an organization that focuses almost entirely on national defense and privatize everything else including such organizations as the Center for Disease Control, the national Institute of Health, The highway fund or any other program that could be privatized which in their mind is practically everything. They preached the notion that the best thing a voter could do for the nation is pay less taxes. This is a pretty easy sell. They have embarked on an ambitious program backed by enormous wealth and resources to achieve this. Part of this is controlling large parts of universities to spread the gospel. The best description I know of of this program is" Democracy in Chains" by Nancy McLean. Because of the vast resources they have in their deceptive programs they are much more dangerous then Donald Trump who is a transparent buffoon and whose presence on the stage is transitory. The republican party is pretty much in thrall to this movement. Traditional conservatives such as George will, Rick Scott, Steven Schmidt and others have left the party. The Republican Party is no longer conservative in the traditional sense. It is merely a group of professional politicians willing to work for the highest bidder. These things, not Donald Trump, are the real dangers to the republic.