FACTS?

I read this, and was particularly struck by the word indisputable:


Indisputable Facts Republicans Really Won’t Like Seeing

August 22, 2014 By Allen Clifton 1 Comment

§                          1) Right now there are millions of Republicans benefitting from the Affordable Care Act – who still want it                    repealed.

2) Conservative icon and legend Ronald Reagan tripled our national debt during his eight years in the White House. 

3) George W. Bush was the first president to lose the overall popular vote in 112 years. 

4) Republicans control the House of Representatives despite losing the overall popular vote by 1.5 million votes. 

5) History will always show that President Barack Obama was in the White House when we located, and killed, Osama bin Ladin. 

6) They oppose birth control, abortion, homosexuality and women’s rights, while believing that government should be based on religious principles… and by “they” I mean Islamic radicals. Though I bet most people were thinking of an entirely different group of people with similar beliefs. 

7) In our Pledge of Allegiance, the phrase “under God” wasn’t added until 1954. 

8) Tens of millions of conservatives rely on Social Security and Medicare to survive – and both programs are forms of socialism.

9) During a 2012 GOP presidential primary debate, conservatives in the audience booed a solider who was currently serving in Iraq… and not a single Republican candidate on stage defended him. 

10) There’s not a single mention of God, Jesus Christ or Christianity anywhere in our Constitution.

 

Ok, if you're a liberal, you agree with all of the above.  If you are a Republican, Conservative, Tea Partier you don't.  Has it always been that so many people disagree with facts?  Do facts really exist?  These are things that have been documented, witnessed, researched and defined.  And yet.  Not to mention that there are still people out there who believe, in no particular order:

1. President Obama is a Muslim.

2. President Obama was not born in the United States of America.

3. President Obama does not salute the American flag (assumedly because of 1. and 2.)

4. The Holocaust is a fabrication created to get sympathy for the Jews.

5. All Jews will go to hell (because they are Jews).

6. Three year olds can be taught to safely use guns.

7. Evolution is a liberal and unproven theory.

8. All followers of Islam are inherently violent.

 

It is indisputable that I have directly heard, or read, with my own eyes and ears, people make those statements.  It is also indisputable that each of these 8 statements is completely and totally false.  False just as the 10 statements preceding are true.  (Honestly, I'm not sure about the Hell thing, or who actually makes those decisions--God, Jesus, Jehovah or Allah or Someone we haven't heard of yet). 

 

I'm pretty sure that there's a direct link between those people who do not believe the first list and do believe the second, and it begins with "I heard it on the news".  Do you even have to ask which "news" they are referring to?