Consciously "fibbing" or merely pathetically misininformed?

In any case an awful lot of people want to overlook the inconvenient truth that the Viaduct can be Repaired.

I was about to settle down to “The David Goldstein Show” on Newsradio 710-KIRO when I heard the host start the discussion of the Viaduct with something like "And we all know that the Viaduct must be Replaced..."

I turned off the radio. I don't have the patience to litsen to conversation aimed at demolition and which plays games with the facts to achieve that goal. The claim that the Viaduct must be replaced is a convenient lie foisted on the public. The inconvenient truth for supporters of both the Tunnel and the Surface options is that the Viaduct could be Repaired (or that their are other options such as a cable-stayed bridge.)

Goldy's parroting of this fiction reminded me of the blinders with which supporters of the Iraq War (in 2002-3) refused to consder any option besides war (such as vastly increased inspections; think about that one for a moment.) Bush's supporters wanted War; the supporters of the Surface option want Demolition. They start with a legitimate goal in mind -- respectively, improving the world by stopping a tyrant's control of WMDs or improving Seattle's waterfront -- but they contort reality and the facts to achieve their goal. In fact the Viaduct can be Repaired (and such Repair btw is the only route to serious considerion of the Surface option. The Surface option can only be achieved by Repairing it first.)

Garbage In, Garbage Out. That's the political process in Seattle and Goldy is taking part. Now I don't know if Goldy truely believes that the Viaduct must be Replaced because it cannot be Repaired, or whether he is conscious of the choice of Repair but chooses to overlook it. I prefer the former as he seems like a nice-enough guy with good intentions. But the result is the same — a public process aimed at a public work based on bad information and pre-conceived results. If Democrats can't do better than that...

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