Shout Out for Politifact

There's been a lot of talk about "Fake News" over the past couple of years, but people have the wrong idea of what news is and what it isn't.  News is just reporting of events as they occur and backing it up with research.  People think that what the President is true news and they (him included) get upset when journalists report that "there is no substantiating proof what he says is true."  People say Snopes leans liberal because they debunk many of his myths.  To those folks, I say they should go to Politifact.  They do a great job of fact checking and Conservatives will be pleased to see that Obama was fact checked also.

One of Obama's biggest lies was saying that people would be able to keep their doctors.  My doctors haven't changed (I'm Kaiser), but evidently many other people had to change doctors.  I believe this was a lie told before the system was finalized and I believe he actually wanted it that way.  What the current President does now is lie to rally up his base and bring out their worst instincts. He keeps talking about his beautiful wall (which yesterday turned out to be more barbed wire) and said that Mexico will pay for it (knowing that they will not).  He lies about:

• "Democrats oppose any effort to secure our border."
• Says a recent opioid bill that reached his desk had "very little Democrat support."
• Saudi Arabia has ordered $450 billion, "$110 billion of which is a military order," producing "over a million jobs."
• "We’re making (Medicare) stronger. We’re making Social Security stronger."  

The list goes on and on but you get my point.  I used to wonder, "Why is thou shalt not lie (bear false witness)" up there with "Thou shalt not kill?" (Exodus 20)  Now I am seeing how lies have consequences because we had 25% of the nation voting for a guy because they believed everything he said.  They didn't want to look past the surface because he echoed some of their darkest thoughts and now they feel empowered.