There simply is no other explanation for it. Not ignorance, not well-intentioned stupidity, not misguided but honest mistakes.

No one could inflict the kinds of cruelty that our politicians do unless they despised their constituents.

The horrible effects of destructive public policies are everywhere: in all our larger cities, in state governments and in the federal government. And yet, when earnest citizens make serious efforts to bring the negative effects to politicians' attention, when they ask for change or improved conditions, when they demand solutions to problems the politicians themselves have caused, the response is never an apology, reversing course, repealing terrible laws or working together to make things better.

To the contrary, the typical response has been to lie; to deny what Americans can see with their own eyes; to demonize and vilify anyone daring to point out the obvious; to use lawfare and to manipulate the electoral process so that American citizens can't remove those responsible for disastrous laws and will be saddled with their consequences — and whatever worse things the politicians can concoct — forever.

There are too many instances to include in a column with limited space. Independent journalist Nick Shirley exposed billions of dollars of fraud in Minnesota. You'd think an honest government would be horrified and commit to rooting out the theft of taxpayers' hard-earned money. Instead, Shirley and others are accused of being racists.

The estimated $9 billion in fraud in Minnesota is dwarfed by California's, which experts think approaches $200 billion in Medicaid, unemployment insurance, welfare and hospice care scams. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before Congress last week that........

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