In general people believe what they want to believe and don't let the facts get in the way too much...

They can sometimes be shocked out of that posture if the evidence is drastic enough, though. When that happens, governments fall and political careers are terminated...as will no doubt happen to Arnold somewhere down the line.

The saddest thing about North American politics in the last few decades is how people have been suckered over and over again into voting in scoundrels by being offered a tax cut! (As if the money wasn't going to be gotten out of them by some other method...there are real expenses to maintaining a society, and only so much real money to go around. So...if the state reduces your taxes, then you will just end up either losing vital public services or paying more taxes to the towns and municipalities to make up the shortfall...or paying a higher price to private businesses to do what you used to get done by public entities for less money than the private sector will charge you!)

Talk about being selectively deaf...

It's a political magic show. The hand is quicker than the eye. People only see the obvious hand in front of their nose offering them a tax cut, they don't see the other hand behind their back robbing their wallet and their future at the same time.

- LH