Yesterday, for my sins, I went to Freedomfest, the libertarian conclave in Las Vegas, to debate Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation. It went pretty much as you might expect: evidence, evidence, evidence versus Reagan, Reagan, Reagan. But in a way the most interesting thing was the audience reaction when I described Obamacare as a major success story so far: boos and hissing.
What’s amazing about this is that the good news about Obamacare isn’t really debatable. It’s a simple fact that there has been a stunningly rapid drop in the number of uninsured, coming from multiple independent sources. It’s also a simple fact that outlays on Medicaid and exchange subsidies are coming in well below projections. …
But this wasn’t supposed to happen [according to conservatives] — and therefore, given the epistemology of the modern American right, it didn’t. Failure was inevitable, success inconceivable, and therefore failure must have happened.
Economist Paul Krugman on Obamacare (via sickeningliberal)
The right wing criticisms are based on fiction.
The right predictions are based on fiction.
The right wing exists in hyper-fact free environment where you are told how to feel because the truth and facts are not to be trusted.
(via jumanjiwasunderrated)
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