Be aware and understand "FALSE EQUIVALENCE."
Think of this. Many voters study the issues, and the candidates ability to keep their promises LESS THAN the time they spend choosing a hotel for their next vacation!
The Ignorant Voter
Jun 27, 2016
Jared Meyer
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaredmeyer/2016/06/27/american-voters-are-ignorant-but-not-stupid/#381cdd4173dd
Democracy and Political Ignorance
ByIlya Somin
Lead Essay
October 11, 2013
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/10/11/ilya-somin/democracy-political-ignorance
Know who you are voting for and do NOT allow yourself to get fooled by false equivalence, unless you want to be led by a dictator.
Comparing Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump on the Truth-O-Meter
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/lists/people/comparing-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-truth-o-met/
Hillary Clinton
True (69)
Mostly True (76)
Half True (66)
Mostly False (40)
False (28)
Pants on Fire (7)
Donald Trump
True (13)
Mostly True (34)
Half True (46)
Mostly False (61)
False (106)
Pants on Fire (55)
All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.
By ANGIE DROBNIC HOLAN DEC. 11, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html?_r=0
"Donald J. Trump’s record on truth and accuracy is astonishingly poor. So far, we’ve fact-checked more than 70 Trump statements and rated fully three-quarters of them as Mostly False, False or “Pants on Fire” (we reserve this last designation for a claim that is not only inaccurate but also ridiculous). We haven’t checked the former neurosurgeon Ben Carson as often as Mr. Trump, but by the percentages Mr. Carson actually fares worse."
"In the Democratic race, Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are evenly matched at 28 percent (based on 43 checks of Mr. Sanders and 140 checks of Mrs. Clinton). Outside of the primary campaign, we’ve continued checking the public statements of Bill Clinton since 2007; he comes out slightly ahead of President Obama in his truth-telling track record."
Finally, beware false equivalence. That is where we compare two liquids for example, say a beer to vodka. They aren't the same, but they are both iiquids.
Example:
In a discussion between a scientist who asserts people cause climate change, a vast amount of evidence is provided.
A non-scientist asserts the data is not accurate, and there is no evidence.
The media then concludes that the debate is unsettled, thus relying on no evidence versus a large amount of evidence supporting climate change, both high quality and high quantity evidence.
This is a false equivalence.
How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Election Coverage
The media’s need to cover “both sides” of every story makes no sense when one side has little regard for the truth.
By Eric AltermanTwitter
June 2, 2016
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-false-equivalence-is-distorting-the-2016-election-coverage/
You can read the information above to know Donald Trump lies much more than any modern politician, except Ben Carson.
HERE IS A DEADLY EXAMPLE OF FALSE EQUIVALENCE because it shows the media comparing Trump words to Hillary words in a VERY false way!
"On March 15, Donald Trump won Florida, North Carolina, Missouri, and Illinois, dispatching Marco Rubio’s campaign to the ash heap of history and giving every impression that he had become the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee. Hillary Clinton also did extremely well that day, taking Illinois, Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina. The New York Times gave its prime spot—the top-right corner of the paper’s front page—to a story headlined “2 Front-Runners, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Find Their Words Can Be Weapons.” Readers quickly learned, if they had missed it previously, that Trump frequently used words like “bimbo,” “dog,” and “fat pig” to refer to some of the women he didn’t like, and this had led to disapproval ratings among women that reached historic proportions. And what “weapons” did Clinton give her adversaries? During a recent speech in coal country, she had suggested that her support for sustainable, clean-energy jobs would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Surely, you get the symmetry: Trump employs sexist school-yard taunts to denigrate roughly half the people on the planet. Clinton bravely tells her audience something they might not want to hear in support of a policy with short-term costs for some but long-term benefits for all. Same thing, right? Just ask, as the Times reporters did, a spokesman for the “anti-Clinton super PAC” America Rising, who opined that Clinton demonstrated a “brazen disregard for the men and women who help power America.” So you see, “dogs,” “pigs,” and “bimbos” versus clean energy. Both sides do it."
Wow! Trump might be right about the dishonest media in a way. When the media simply video tapes and shares Donald Trump's nasty, disrespectful behaviors, and ugly sentiments, the media is corrupt and dishonest.
BUT IF THE MEDIA GIVES UP A FALSE EQUIVALENCE, they are not corrupt or dishonest are they?
Common man, don't be misled like a cow to slaughter. Study and be aware!
