Mendocracy in action
by digby
I thought I was as cynical as it was possible to be about this sort of thing, but once again I learned that I was a naive old fool:
Advocates of unlimited secret political spending say it leads to a more informed electorate, but according to a new study, in reality it spreads more lies.
An examination of presidential-election advertising spending by the top four secret big-money political groups — all of them right-wing — found that 85 percent of their money over a recent six-month period went to ads that independent fact-checkers determined were in some way deceptive.
That’s spending against each other. Imagine what they have in store for their mortal enemies.
Wow. I don’t know what to say about this. We are about to be overwhelmed with lies on a level we’ve never experienced before. The media is fractured, but when it comes to campaign ads, which in many places is all that people ever hear about politics, it still washes over them in a big wave.
It looks like a whole lot of people are going to be a whole lot stupider before this campaign is over.
.