Welcome, everybody.

You know, one of the things in American politics that sometimes takes getting used to,

I guess we could say, is that it often is the case that something whose logic is completely backwards becomes mainstream.

And it gets repeated and repeated and repeated uncritically.

So much so that people who are applying critical thinking will start to doubt themselves.

It's almost like a self gaslighting where they will go, even though it makes

no sense to me, it must make sense to someone because they keep hearing it. Let me give you

an example because I know I'm speaking sort of abstractly. Cut Medicaid to strengthen Medicaid.

Most people would hear that and they would say, wait a second, how do you

strengthen it by cutting it? Well, Republicans have been repeating that endlessly. And it's sort of

presented as a genius new plan. Let's make Medicaid better by cutting it. And we're going to look

at an example clip of this. It's Republican Senator Roger Marshall who loves gutting health care for low income

Americans, but he's framing it as we're doing them a favor. Everybody should be thrilled

that we're doing this to Medicaid. It's like saying we're going to help the hungry by taking

away their food stamps. How is that going to help anybody? Well, we're going to have a lot more

food floating around since they won't have food stamps

with which to get the food.

It makes no sense.

But that's essentially what they're doing.

And this is not a gaffe.

This is the strategy.

So let's talk about it after we take a look at this clip.

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