Analyst: Both Republican and Democratic Parties use lies to advance their agendas

An American political commentator and activist has said that both Republican and Democratic Parties use lies to advance their agendas, adding, “The Republicans are masters of fear as a tactic but the Democrats use it as well.”

US President Joe Biden on Monday denounced the Republican Party for fear-mongering and spreading falsehoods, adding that the GOP makes empty promises to the American people to win votes in elections.

Biden was speaking at a virtual Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser event in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections. He said Republican politicians spread “fear and lies" in US society, in addition to breaking the promises that they make to the American people to gain their votes in the elections.

“The Republican Party today offers nothing but fear and lies and broken promises. We have to keep cutting through the Republican fog that the government isn’t the problem and show that we the people, we the people, are always the solution,” he said.

Biden: Republican Party offers 'fear and lies and broken promises'

President Joe Biden says the Republican Party offers "fear and lies and broken promises" to the people of the United States.

Commenting on Biden’s statement, Myles Hoenig said, “Fear and lies are the modi operandi of the Republican Party. We don’t need President Joe Biden to tell us that.”

“Whether it be the pandemic is a hoax, Trump won the election, the election was rigged, or go far enough back to ‘Peace with Honor’ and throughout its history as a party, lies have been the GOP’s Get Out the Vote plan. Yet so to have they been used by the Democrats- equally. We don’t have to go back in their history to see their lies being at the forefront of policymaking. WMDs were just as much a Democratic tool to go to war with Iraq as it was for the Republicans. Look at Biden’s campaign promises and you’ll see almost nothing realized. They’ll of course blame it on the obstructionist Republicans but they never intended to pass legislation for a minimum wage of $15, still below the poverty line, or student debt relief, or a host of other proposals promised but never intended to be delivered,” he told Press TV.

'Dye in the wool' conservative warmongers

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday said her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney (R), is “deeply troubled” about the state of the Republican Party.

“My dad is deeply troubled about where our party is, deeply troubled about where the country is,” Cheney said during an event hosted by the Aspen Institute.

She said her father, who served under former President George W. Bush, has been a “tremendous source of advice and guidance and wisdom for me.”

Hoenig said that Congresswoman Liz Cheney and her father “are both feeling disenchanted with their party. But both are 'dye in the wool' conservative warmongers. The only difference is that they do see the GOP moving away from the Constitution as THEY perceive it. War, torture, surveillance, etc. is OK with them (and all pretty much against the Constitution). Fear and lies are not alien to them. It’s the extremes that the party is going to that is frustrating this soon to be forgotten political dynasty.”

He said, “The difference this time is that the Republicans are maximizing the element of fear to levels we haven’t seen in a very long time. Make American Great Again and promotion at the highest levels of white supremacists was taken out of the Democratic Party’s playbook during Jim Crow days. The Democrats’ KKK, and their ilk, played on the fears of whites who treasured their ‘white womanhood’. The Proud Boys today are just picking up where the KKK’s power has diminished, and for the Republicans.”

“Lies work equally for both parties. The Republicans are masters of fear as a tactic but the Democrats use it as well. How many people voted for them just because they were afraid of what the Republicans would do to the Supreme Court? It is a justifiable concern, but the rightward tilt of the Court has been accomplished with Democratic Party support as well as its own negligence,” Hoenig concluded.

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