Mr Pitts, quoted above, continues:

"I would point out that this facts-optional approach shreds the government's credibility.

"But here's what really burns my toast: These people think I'm stupid. And they think you're stupid, too. What else can we conclude of a government that treats us with such brazen disdain?
They think we're a bunch of doofuses, dimwits and dolts who will never notice that they've placed the interests of their cronies above our own."

Mr Pitts is offended at being treated like an idiot. Unfortunately, if the Bushies are correct about approximately 15% of the people, it's enough to carry them in an election; and one may fear that they are correct about that required small percent.

The only way this disinformation can be opposed is to find a coherent group of at least 16% (?) of the voters, who will cooperate to outvote the 15% who actually are idiots. Taking even the 50% who may be assumed to be "smarter than the median voter" we find total fragmentation into tiny scisms each commited to their individual petty demands and unable to cooperate in any aligned fashion to specificaly and coherently oppose the stupidity of this administration.

I'm not particularly optimistic.

John