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Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics.
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<blockquote data-quote="av8torntn" data-source="post: 747336" data-attributes="member: 8259"><p>In a way, maybe, but remember the death panel part of the health care debate? Death panels. The bill at the time had a provision that required a panel to determine treatments based on things like life expectancy. The dimocrats fired back that there was no such thing as a death panel and you could not even find those words in the bill. While neither side actually told a lie the rhetoric from the right won out as it caused several provisions to be removed from the bill. Think how powerful oversimplification of an issue can be. I think you already understand that as you do it often here. It could have gone the other way, and they tried to spin it, and caused the anti freedom crowd the ability to add more to the law. Lots of political lessons were gained from the health care debate that will play out in the years to come. One thing for certain now is that popularity of a law being debated doesn't necessarily predict the outcome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="av8torntn, post: 747336, member: 8259"] In a way, maybe, but remember the death panel part of the health care debate? Death panels. The bill at the time had a provision that required a panel to determine treatments based on things like life expectancy. The dimocrats fired back that there was no such thing as a death panel and you could not even find those words in the bill. While neither side actually told a lie the rhetoric from the right won out as it caused several provisions to be removed from the bill. Think how powerful oversimplification of an issue can be. I think you already understand that as you do it often here. It could have gone the other way, and they tried to spin it, and caused the anti freedom crowd the ability to add more to the law. Lots of political lessons were gained from the health care debate that will play out in the years to come. One thing for certain now is that popularity of a law being debated doesn't necessarily predict the outcome. [/QUOTE]
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