Donald Trump’s sunk cost fallacy
Pathological liars are a curse on society. Because they are utterly incapable of telling the truth, they have the capacity to cause a lot of trouble. Now, in politics, pathological liars abound. They can be seen all over the place, doing what they do best: lying.
And such obvious lies they tell. And so it went that House liar and Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on CNN. Johnson appeared very earnest, even as he told a whopper. No, he lied. The GOP is not going to cut Medicaid. There is so much misinformation about this big, beautiful, HEAVENLY bill.
Of course, John is lying. Over the last few days, I’ve begun to notice a certain desperation in Mike Johnson’s voice. He’s all but BEGGING the Senate not to make too many changes to the bill. By the way, other Republicans are also doing this.
But they’re all lying. OF COURSE, Medicaid will be cut, brutally cut, splintering into pieces, cracking open, and becoming a mere pale shadow of what the program once was. Yes, the Mike Johnsons of the world can lie and often do lie. They lie even as they’re screwing millions of people over. Do you think they sleep at night? I imagine, sadly, they do — perfectly fine.
So on and on, Johnson went to CNN’s Jake Tapper (it figures it’d be Tapper). But I’ve got news for Johnson. Nobody will believe him. The New York Times says these Medicaid cuts will be huge, and Republicans can’t hide them. Many outlets also say MEDECARE would also be cut. MSNBC says it’d lead to $500 billion in cuts.
I get what Mike Johnson is doing, but it’s a lie. He is engaging in the sunk-cost fallacy. For those who do not know what the “sunk cost fallacy” is, it is a phenomenon where one is reluctant to abandon a strategy because they’re invested in it, even when it becomes abundantly clear that abandoning such a strategy would be best.
You see, the GOP KNOWS — they surely know what idiots they’re being and how such cuts will make them look like the ogres they are. But abandoning it now would be a betrayal of Donald Trump. So, basically, to sum up, Republicans have invested in a go-nowhere strategy that will hurt millions of people. They know it’s a bad strategy, and they see it’s a bad strategy, but because of Donald Trump, they continue to use such a strategy, a strategy that has the potential to open its arms and thrust them into nothingness in the next election.
