In Which Zandar Answers Your Burning Questions

John Cole laments on Republican complaints that health care spending will increase as a result of the Reid bill:

Spending in health care is going to increase no matter what happens. It is going to increase at a completely unsustainable rate if we do nothing. Which is why we’ve been talking about reforming health care for the last couple of decades, and precisely why we’ve been talking about it intently for the last two. It is why we have been talking about “getting health care costs under control” for years. It is why Republicans, for all my lifetime, have been screaming that Medicaid and Medicare are going to bankrupt us- that is, until a couple of weeks ago when in an act of sheer political cynicism, the RNC and the Republicans decided to guarantee unlimited and unchecked Medicare benefits forever.

It is almost like these Republicans are so damned stupid they have no idea what the hell we are even debating. How are they supposed to have a coherent response or be constructive participants if they can’t even figure out the debate?

Glad you asked.  The answer is simple:  the low-information voter counts exactly the same as the high-information one. Confusing the low-information voter is infinitely easier than logically trying to convince the high-information one.  Ignorance in politics is therefore far more worthwhile than intelligent debate.  Period.