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Mitch McConnell Says the Military is ‘Radically Underfunded’. Really?
Politicians just love to gaslight you.
Politicians absolutely love to gaslight you. In the United States, it’s all but guaranteed that any corporate aligned politician regardless of what political party they’re aligned with will invest a significant amount of time trying to convince you not to believe your lying eyes. It doesn’t matter if you can barely make rent. It doesn’t matter if as a parent, you’re having to choose between paying for your kid’s medication, or the food on their table. It doesn’t matter if the minimum wage hasn’t been raised in well over a decade, or if the equivalent of a stadium full of people is dying every single year because they’re uninsured or underinsured.
That’s all insignificant.
Everything’s just dandy, right?
Well of course, Republican senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has recently decided to take part in the gaslighting once again and this time, it has to do with the military and the funding in particular.
Sahil Kapur with NBC News writes:
“…Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday blasted the military spending levels established in the new debt limit law, escalating an emerging standoff between Senate Republicans and House…
