Witness the below picture. In 14 words there are at least six outright falsehoods, misrepresentations, and/or insinuations not justified by the facts.
1) It implies that Jesus was socialist.
2) It suggests that obamacare is free.
3) Is suggests that it's for the poor.
4) It implies that Jesus would support obamacare.
5) It suggests that Jesus was providing healthcare, and that obamacare is the same thing.
6) It tacitly condemns Christians who oppose obamacare as being unchristian.
It would take paragraphs of commentary to refute each point, certainly a relatively easy undertaking, but it wouldn't matter. Why bother? Tomorrow we would start all over.
This mindless, glib statement is sufficiently persuasive to a typical unthinking, unblinking Leftist that it is worthy of canonization into the Book of Talking Points as self-evident truth.
We have a meme in response:
Liberals communicate primarily via bumper stickers, infographics, and posters. It is a form of driveby-ism where the data itself and the facts cannot be presented for thinking adults to process. Instead, it starts with the conclusion, omits the inconvenient details that might prove fatal to the premise, and often attempts to shame anyone who disagrees. A similar treatment to the one above is given in support of anyone who - in the name of their christianity - opposes gay marriage. They cherry pick the Bible, alternately praising those passages that can be twisted to support SJWs while damning those passages they find inconvenient.
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