The Administration's Entire Strategy Is Betting You Can't Do the Math

The Administration's Entire Strategy Is Betting You Can't Do the Math

Let's pull back the curtain and look at the single, unifying strategy of the current administration, because it's as simple as it is insulting: They think you're an idiot.

They are betting the house that you will hear a big, scary number and your brain will immediately shut off. They are counting on you to feel, not to think. They are absolutely, positively certain that you will never, ever check the receipts.

Once you see this pattern, you can't unsee it. It’s everywhere.

Take the latest talking point designed to make you panic: Fifty-five million people are in the U.S. with visas! It sounds like an invasion, right? A flood.

Except... that's the number of visas issued over many years, not the number of people currently here. The vast majority of these individuals are tourists and business travelers who fly in, spend a ton of money propping up our economy, and then—this is the important part—fly home.

But the goal isn't accuracy. The goal is the number: 55 million. It's big, it's scary, and it works perfectly if you don't think about it for more than five seconds.

Then there's the classic hit single: immigrants are a drain on taxpayer money, gobbling up housing and medical care.

The reality? Immigrants, including the undocumented, pay billions upon billions in taxes. They contribute to Social Security and Medicare systems they will likely never benefit from. In many cases, they are net contributors who subsidize the very services they are accused of draining.

Again, the strategy is to paint a picture of dependency, betting you'll ignore the pay stubs and tax records that prove the exact opposite.

And of course, there's the obsessive, manufactured crisis of transgender people in sports. To hear them tell it, every girl's swim meet in America is being dominated by a trans athlete.

The actual number of trans athletes is so infinitesimally small it barely registers statistically. This isn't a widespread issue. It's not even a "niche" issue. It's a rounding error being amplified into a national emergency because it's a cheap, easy way to scare you. They're betting your fear will be more powerful than the facts.

The best part is that while they're peddling these fictions, the hypocrisy is deafening.

They scream about crime in "Democrat-run cities," while Republican-led states consistently top the national charts for the highest poverty and murder rates.

They wrap themselves in the flag of Christian morality, while the loudest proponents of "family values" often represent communities with staggering rates of conviction for crimes like child sexual abuse.

They're betting you won't check the FBI crime stats. They're betting you won't look at the court records. They're betting their performance of morality is more powerful than the ugly reality.

This isn't just politics. This is an information war, and their primary weapon is the cynical belief that you are too lazy, too busy, or too overwhelmed to look beyond their inflammatory headlines.

The single most effective act of resistance is to prove them wrong. Check the receipts. Do the math. Call out the lie. Their entire house of cards is built on the bet that you won't.

Let's make that the worst bet they've ever made.