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Trib: Believing Lies, Obscuring Truth

Accuse Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter of selling the state out to the Chinese and people will believe it. Tell them the governor puts big corporations and special interests at the front of the line, however, and they're incredulous. What would you call people who buy a conspiracy theory but ignore their own reality? Republicans. Meeting in Moscow Saturday, the state GOP Central Committee gave credence to the China story by directing Otter to go slow. The GOP resolution says in part: "The stability of our form of government is being undermined by strategies used by the Chinese state-government-controlled entities through investments, corporate takeovers, intelligence operations and rare-Earth monopolization"/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Why do partisans of all stripes, and not just Idaho Republicans, believe lies & obscure truth of their elected party leaders?



D.F. Oliveria

D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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