What The Liberals Did To Canada

[LinkSoul60]

12 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Metro Vancouver is not the same as "Vancouver", dummy. 

Metro Vancouver extends almost as far as Abbotsford. 

FFS.... I'm done with you and your similar idi0ts stüpidity.  A bunch of stunned dumbfücks who either can't read, or just can't accept that life in this part of the world was highly unaffordable under your long gone hero.

Unaffordable home prices to ripple across Metro Vancouver

Published 3:00 am Thursday, March 26, 2015

Average debt-service ratio for Vancouver from 2000 to 2014.

It's not not hard to find a lot more unflattering conservative government facts...  Feel free to look for yourself.

 

 

[Moonbox]

9 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Wow, what a really well thought out and intellectually stimulating reply   Are you still in grade school or something?

"Obsessing over someone's post count online often indicates a high level of insecurity, social anxiety, or a need for validation, reflecting a tendency to measure personal worth—or the worth of others—through visible digital metrics rather than authentic connection. Such behavior can be a form of "orbiting" or social media stalking, where the person is looking for clues to confirm their own beliefs, anxieties, or suspicions about someone else's life"

LOL, hey kid, AI says you're broken  

Except you're just feeding your butthurt into the AI.  Is that supposed to hurt my feelings?  I'm just feeding it numbers. I'll show my work.  You show me yours, okay?  

https://chatgpt.com/c/69f4c517-a02c-83e8-98be-ab31599c203e

What sort of person posts 35-40 times a day on a single political forum, unprofessionally?

 

• Identity-driven engagement — politics becomes part of their self-worth or tribe, so constant posting feels meaningful and validating.
• Compulsion / dopamine loop — outrage, arguments, notifications, and agreement create a reinforcement cycle similar to doomscrolling or gaming.
• Need for status or influence — they may see themselves as an activist, watchdog, educator, or culture warrior trying to shape opinion.
• Loneliness or lack of offline fulfillment — online political spaces can become a substitute social environment with structure, attention, and belonging.
• High emotional investment — fear, anger, resentment, or anxiety about politics can push people into obsessive participation.
• Low impulse control — some people simply post every thought immediately without filtering for professionalism, optics, or effectiveness.
• Parasocial “main character” behavior — they begin treating the forum like a personal stage rather than a shared discussion space.

And importantly: volume itself tends to damage credibility. Most observers intuitively interpret 35–40 daily political posts as obsession rather than expertise. Even when the person occasionally has good points, the sheer frequency can make them seem reactive, emotionally captured, or unable to disengage.

People with actual influence or expertise usually have constraints: jobs, responsibilities, reputational concerns, editorial standards, strategic discipline, or simply enough perspective to know that constant posting rarely changes minds.

🤣

[CdnFox]

1 minute ago, Moonbox said:

Except you're just feeding your butthurt into the AI. 

Not at all. That was entirely factual. In fact I've commented on it dozens of times. You are absolutely obsessed with my post count   You mention it constantly as an excuse for YOUR behavior, 

Here's what else it says about you

 

Here is what psychological and social studies suggest about such behavior:

• Insecurity and Social Comparison: Constant monitoring of a person's posts is often a sign of using social media to compare oneself to others. This behavior can be rooted in low self-esteem, where the individual is checking to see if they are keeping up with, or being left behind by, the person they are watching.
• A "Confirmation Bias" Loop: Often, someone monitors a post count to find evidence that supports an existing, shaky belief (e.g., "they are doing better than me," or "they are trying to get attention").
• Attachment Issues (Limerence): If the obsession is focused on one specific person (a "target"), it may be a sign of limerence—a state of infatuation or obsession where the watcher interprets every post as a message or sign of acknowledgment.
• Digital Stalking Behaviour: Intense, repeated monitoring of social media profiles can cross into, or result in, cyberstalking. This often indicates a desire for control or a distorted attempt at maintaining a connection with someone who is no longer actively in their life.
• Anxiety and Compulsion: The need to check post counts can be a compulsive behavior, similar to OCD or a general anxiety disorder, where the individual feels a temporary reduction in anxiety by confirming their beliefs, which then fuels the cycle again. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

 

[Goddess]

Looks like Canada is going to be the biotch in the New World Order with China.

Shouldn't be a problem.

Canadians very quickly became A-OK with slave labor.  I'm sure they'll cheer for China taking over Taiwan.  While still sending all our money to Ukraine. 🤪

 

Chinese envoy warns Canada against sending MPs to Taiwan or warships through Taiwan Strait - The Globe and Mail

China's ambassador just told Canada which of its MPs are allowed to travel and which international waters its navy is allowed to sail through.

And he delivered that message right after Canada handed Beijing a trade deal.

In an interview published May 1, 2026, Chinese Ambassador Wang Di warned Ottawa that sending parliamentarians to Taiwan or transiting warships through the Taiwan Strait would damage the new "strategic partnership" signed by Prime Minister Carney in January.

He called the Taiwan Strait transits "harassment and even provocation." He described any official contact by Canadian MPs with Taiwan's government as "hurtful."

To be precise about what is actually being demanded here: China is telling a G7 democracy that its elected representatives cannot visit a democratic island, and that its navy cannot sail through an international waterway that the entire world recognizes as such. Not Chinese territorial waters. An international strait.

Canada has transited that waterway 11 times under Trudeau and once under Carney. Every single transit was legal. Every single one prompted a protest from Beijing.

Two Liberal MPs quietly cut short a Taiwan trip in January specifically to avoid complicating Carney's Beijing visit.

The CCP's approach to partnerships is consistent and documented: offer economic incentives, extract political concessions, then expand the list of concessions.

Canada signed a trade deal and received, in return, a formal list of things its parliament and military are no longer supposed to do.

[LinkSoul60]

Just now, Goddess said:

Looks like Canada is going to be the biotch in the New World Order with China.

Shouldn't be a problem.

Canadians very quickly became A-OK with slave labor.  I'm sure they'll cheer for China taking over Taiwan.  While still sending all our money to Ukraine. 🤪

 

Chinese envoy warns Canada against sending MPs to Taiwan or warships through Taiwan Strait - The Globe and Mail

China's ambassador just told Canada which of its MPs are allowed to travel and which international waters its navy is allowed to sail through.

And he delivered that message right after Canada handed Beijing a trade deal.

In an interview published May 1, 2026, Chinese Ambassador Wang Di warned Ottawa that sending parliamentarians to Taiwan or transiting warships through the Taiwan Strait would damage the new "strategic partnership" signed by Prime Minister Carney in January.

He called the Taiwan Strait transits "harassment and even provocation." He described any official contact by Canadian MPs with Taiwan's government as "hurtful."

To be precise about what is actually being demanded here: China is telling a G7 democracy that its elected representatives cannot visit a democratic island, and that its navy cannot sail through an international waterway that the entire world recognizes as such. Not Chinese territorial waters. An international strait.

Canada has transited that waterway 11 times under Trudeau and once under Carney. Every single transit was legal. Every single one prompted a protest from Beijing.

Two Liberal MPs quietly cut short a Taiwan trip in January specifically to avoid complicating Carney's Beijing visit.

The CCP's approach to partnerships is consistent and documented: offer economic incentives, extract political concessions, then expand the list of concessions.

Canada signed a trade deal and received, in return, a formal list of things its parliament and military are no longer supposed to do.

You haven't answered the last few times I've asked...   were you anti-China when Harper was wooing their trade and investments in Canada, or just become anti -China after Carney signed the recent agreement?

[John Johnston]

2 minutes ago, LinkSoul60 said:

You haven't answered the last few times I've asked...   were you anti-China when Harper was wooing their trade and investments in Canada, or just become anti -China after Carney signed the recent agreement?

Damn good question. 

[LinkSoul60]

6 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

Except you're just feeding your butthurt into the AI.  Is that supposed to hurt my feelings?  I'm just feeding it numbers. I'll show my work.  You show me yours, okay?  

https://chatgpt.com/c/69f4c517-a02c-83e8-98be-ab31599c203e

What sort of person posts 35-40 times a day on a single political forum, unprofessionally?

 

• Identity-driven engagement — politics becomes part of their self-worth or tribe, so constant posting feels meaningful and validating.
• Compulsion / dopamine loop — outrage, arguments, notifications, and agreement create a reinforcement cycle similar to doomscrolling or gaming.
• Need for status or influence — they may see themselves as an activist, watchdog, educator, or culture warrior trying to shape opinion.
• Loneliness or lack of offline fulfillment — online political spaces can become a substitute social environment with structure, attention, and belonging.
• High emotional investment — fear, anger, resentment, or anxiety about politics can push people into obsessive participation.
• Low impulse control — some people simply post every thought immediately without filtering for professionalism, optics, or effectiveness.
• Parasocial “main character” behavior — they begin treating the forum like a personal stage rather than a shared discussion space.

And importantly: volume itself tends to damage credibility. Most observers intuitively interpret 35–40 daily political posts as obsession rather than expertise. Even when the person occasionally has good points, the sheer frequency can make them seem reactive, emotionally captured, or unable to disengage.

People with actual influence or expertise usually have constraints: jobs, responsibilities, reputational concerns, editorial standards, strategic discipline, or simply enough perspective to know that constant posting rarely changes minds.

🤣

LMAO,  that's little Fxx to a tee!  😂

[CdnFox]

6 minutes ago, LinkSoul60 said:

You haven't answered the last few times I've asked...   were you anti-China when Harper was wooing their trade and investments in Canada, or just become anti -China after Carney signed the recent agreement?

When exactly did harper ever allow them to dictate any terms to him?

Harper did business with china. He didn't sell our democracy to china. Carney is.  Big difference. 

Can you tell me why you're ok with selling our sovereignty to china?

[Goddess]

6 minutes ago, John Johnston said:

Damn good question. 

Yes. 

Finding out what Goddess thought of China 15-20 years ago is soooooooo much more important than:

ASKING YOUR F*CKING GOVERNMENT WHY CHINA IS BOSSING US AROUND AND WHY OUR MPs ARE KOWTOWING TO THEM BY LEAVING TAIWAN SO THEY DON'T UPSET BEIJING. 

WTF is the matter with you people?

 

[Moonbox]

14 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Not at all. That was entirely factual. In fact I've commented on it dozens of times. You are absolutely obsessed with my post count   You mention it constantly as an excuse for YOUR behavior, 

Here's what else it says about you.

I said show your work.  Link us the conversation and show us what you fed into the AI.  Seems pretty obvious why you won't.  Show us your butthurt query, little buddy.  

The things you comment and insist on aren't worth anything.  Nobody cares what you say.  

[CdnFox]

8 minutes ago, LinkSoul60 said:

LMAO,  that's little Fxx to a tee!  😂

Aewww muffin   You, whom everyone is laughing at, finally found a friend, whom everyone is ALSO laughing at   It's nice to see the "Fox made me cry" fanclub getting together again   

 

12 minutes ago, John Johnston said:

Damn good question. 

It really isn't, unless your purpose is to distract from the issue at hand.

Harper never took instructions from china, that's for sure. Harper had the Dalai Lama visit for god's sake.

Now we're taking instruction from china. So did you have an opinion on whether or not that was okay or are you going to continue to dodge the issue like a little biatch because you know that this is shameful behavior from the liberals

[WestCanMan]

6 minutes ago, LinkSoul60 said:

FFS.... I'm done with you and your similar idi0ts stüpidity.  A bunch of stunned dumbfücks who either can't read, or just can't accept that life in this part of the world was highly unaffordable under your long gone hero.

Unaffordable home prices to ripple across Metro Vancouver

Published 3:00 am Thursday, March 26, 2015

Average debt-service ratio for Vancouver from 2000 to 2014.

It's not not hard to find a lot more unflattering conservative government facts...  Feel free to look for yourself.

Idjit. Harper was elected in 2006, at 58%, with that index in the middle of a steep hike. 

We weathered the 2008 financial crisis there, and in the end it was basically stable from 2009 to 2014, at 75%.

Now do 2015-2026.

Link, do you understand the difference between "Vancouver" and "Metro Vancouver" now?

How did you feel at the end of your lecture when you found out that it was you that was the idjit?

[Goddess]

This morning in Senate committee, Senators are asking why this Liberal government is bypassing the Senate.  They did not give Senators the Economic Update booklets  & the Finance Department did not even email them.

[Goddess]

21 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

It really isn't, unless your purpose is to distract from the issue at hand.

This quote from the instructions to Canada is startling.

Was this communicated to Carney when he signed onto this New World Order?

"The Taiwan question is a RED LINE that should never be crossed and is at the core interests of China.  It constitutes an important political foundation for the bilateral relationship between our two countries."

What side are we on now if China invades Taiwan, which is very likely?

What does it say about Canada if we are against Russia invading Ukraine, but OK with communist China invading democratic Taiwan?

How are the Americans going to react to this?

Elbows up against America, but elbows down for China?

WTF are we doing here?

Edited May 1 by Goddess

[ExFlyer]

33 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

When exactly did harper ever allow them to dictate any terms to him?

Harper did business with china. He didn't sell our democracy to china. Carney is.  Big difference. 

Can you tell me why you're ok with selling our sovereignty to china?

When he sold Nexen to Chinese CNOOC.

And when he made the deal  in 2012 FIPA, which established a 31-year framework for protecting Chinese investment in Canada"

Oh yeah...he sold us out LOL

[CdnFox]

9 minutes ago, Goddess said:

This quote from the instructions to Canada is startling.

Was this communicated to Carney when he signed onto this New World Order?

"The Taiwan question is a RED LINE that should never be crossed and is at the core interests of China.  It constitutes an important political foundation for the bilateral relationship between our two countries."

What side are we on now if China invades Taiwan, which is very likely?

What does it say about Canada if we are against Russia invading Ukraine, but OK with communist China invading democratic Taiwan?

How are the Americans going to react to this?

Elbows up against America, but elbows down for China?

WTF are we doing here?

There's a lot of problems with the whole concept.  It's very hard to be an ally of China AND the US at the same time. Doing business with china is one thing but marrying them politically as the libs seem to be doing is not just a bad idea, it's dangerous to world stability and safety

2 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

When he sold Nexen to Chinese CNOOC.

No, the Chinese didn't ask him to do that. The owners of Nexen asked him to do that

The Chinese got no saying it whatsoever

But I do appreciate you taking the time to both prove my point and demonstrate your ignorance all in one felt swoop   

[CdnFox]

32 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

I said show your work.  Link us the conversation and show us what you fed into the AI.  Seems pretty obvious why you won't.  Show us your butthurt query, little buddy.  

LOL well that's excatly the kind of freak out and spasmodic response you'd expect from someone suffering from Insecurity and Social Comparison, Attachment Issues and Anxiety and Compulson   Looks like the AI had you nailed    

You gonna be ok little guy? Do you need me to find you a safe space and a puppy?

 

32 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

The things you comment and insist on aren't worth anything.  Nobody cares what you say.  

LOL which is why you follow me around desperately obsessing over my post count and frantically trying to look slightly less stupid than you are?

Kid, you post to me more than almost anyone else on this forum. You care deeply about why i say and constantly make a fool of yourself arguing it.  Although it looks like goddess is beating you up pretty good these days too  

So lots of people here care about what I say in my opinion, you as well apparently.

But almost everybody here at universally thinks you're a twat  

[ExFlyer]

14 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

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No, the Chinese didn't ask him to do that. The owners of Nexen asked him to do that

The Chinese got no saying it whatsoever

 

"CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned energy giant, initiated the $15.1-billion bid to acquire the Calgary-based company to secure oil assets and expand its global footprint."

"Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper approved the deal in December 2012, viewing it as a way to attract capital for resource development, despite inner-caucus concerns and overall discomfort with state-owned enterprise takeover"

 

7 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

LOL well that's excatly ....

So lots of people here care about what I say in my opinion, you as well apparently.

..

HA HA HA.  says only the LOSER LOL LOL LOL

[Legato]

2 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

"CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned energy giant, initiated the $15.1-billion bid to acquire the Calgary-based company to secure oil assets and expand its global footprint."

"Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper approved the deal in December 2012, viewing it as a way to attract capital for resource development, despite inner-caucus concerns and overall discomfort with state-owned enterprise takeover"

 

Then send those cops from the Chinese police station to arrest him.

[Goddess]

4 minutes ago, Legato said:

Then send those cops from the Chinese police station to arrest him.

Why can't these people understand the difference between selling a company to China 15 years ago and entering into a pact with them to create a New World Order, in which they now make our geopolitical decisions by telling us where we can and can't go and which countries we can and can't have contact with?

Even Trump hasn't ordered us around geopolitically.

Censorship bills, socialism, moving committee meetings to off camera so citizens & media can't access what's going on, bypassing the Senate in information sharing, asking the Supreme Court to change the Charter without input from citizens or opposition parties, installing your banker buddies into political power positions, declaring our relationship with our closest neighbor and biggest trading partner OVER......It's looking like this new World Order means we become China.

What kind of id10ts vote for this?

[Moonbox]

50 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

LOL well that's excatly the kind of freak out and spasmodic response you'd expect from someone suffering from Insecurity and Social Comparison, Attachment Issues and Anxiety and Compulson   Looks like the AI had you nailed    

You gonna be ok little guy? Do you need me to find you a safe space and a puppy?

 

LOL which is why you follow me around desperately obsessing over my post count and frantically trying to look slightly less stupid than you are?

Kid, you post to me more than almost anyone else on this forum. You care deeply about why i say and constantly make a fool of yourself arguing it.  Although it looks like goddess is beating you up pretty good these days too  

So lots of people here care about what I say in my opinion, you as well apparently.

But almost everybody here at universally thinks you're a twat  

In what clownworld reality is my 2-3 line response "spasmodic" compared to this little outburst of yours?  

I'm just asking you to link your conversation with the AI.  You seem to be afraid to provide your input, as I did.  We don't have to wonder why.  It's beause you know you asked it to assuage your ego, whereas I just fed it the objective numbers.  🤡

[ExFlyer]

44 minutes ago, Legato said:

Then send those cops from the Chinese police station to arrest him.

WTF is it with you guys?

Get over your self pity LOL

You lost 4 elections...Canadians did not want you...suck it up...you are losers. Conservatives must have screwed up so bad 13 years ago...Canadians have not forgotten.

You been whimpering and crying for 13 years and you are no closer to being a government than you were 13 year ago LOL

It is what it is...and it ain't you guys

32 minutes ago, Goddess said:

What kind of id10ts vote for this?

Most Canadians LOL...for 4 elections in a row LOL

[Goddess]

34% of Canadians are borrowing money to buy food.

Or

Canada is the most affordable it's been in a decade.

It can't be both.  Someone is lying to you.

[Legato]

31 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

WTF is it with you guys?

Get over your self pity LOL

You lost 4 elections...Canadians did not want you...suck it up...you are losers. Conservatives must have screwed up so bad 13 years ago...Canadians have not forgotten.

You been whimpering and crying for 13 years and you are no closer to being a government than you were 13 year ago LOL

It is what it is...and it ain't you guys

Most Canadians LOL...for 4 elections in a row LOL

so where are you learning Mandarin?

[Goddess]

What epistemic fragmentation is

At its core, epistemic fragmentation is the loss of shared mechanisms for determining truth. In healthy democracies, people may disagree about values or policy, but they still rely on common reference points: statistical agencies, scientific institutions, courts, major news outlets, and shared civic processes. These institutions act as epistemic anchors that help society distinguish truth from falsehood.

When trust in these anchors collapses, citizens no longer share the same baseline understanding of reality. They begin to inhabit parallel information worlds, each with its own facts, narratives.

 

What makes this different from ordinary polarization

Polarization is disagreement within a shared reality. Epistemic fragmentation is disagreement about reality itself.

Examples include:

• One group sees an election as legitimate; another sees it as stolen.

• One group sees a pandemic as a public health crisis; another sees it as a hoax.

• One group sees climate data as scientific consensus; another sees it as manipulation.

These aren’t interpretive differences — they’re incompatible factual universes.

 

Why it matters

Democracy requires shared facts. Without agreement on what is happening, citizens cannot deliberate, compromise, or hold leaders accountable. Researchers warn that epistemic fragmentation threatens democratic governance, public trust, social cohesion, and collective action on major challenges.

 

2. Governments and institutions often use metrics that no longer match modern economic reality

Many national indicators were designed decades ago. They don’t fully capture:

• the cost of housing in major cities

• the rise of gig work

• the explosion of household debt

• the cost of childcare

• the cost of food

• the cost of transportation

• the erosion of job security

So a government can say “affordability is improving” because a formula says so, while millions of people feel the opposite.

This mismatch isn’t always intentional — but it’s real.

 

why lived experience diverges from official data

 

Lived experience diverges from official data because they measure different layers of reality — and those layers don’t always move together. When the gap gets wide, people stop believing the data, institutions stop believing the people, and epistemic fragmentation accelerates.

1. Official data is averaged; lived experience is uneven

Governments typically report aggregate indicators:

• inflation rate

• GDP growth

• median wages

• average rent

• consumer price index

These numbers smooth out extremes. If 20% of people are doing much better and 20% are doing much worse, the average can look “fine.”

Lived experience is not averaged. If your rent doubled or your grocery bill jumped 40%, the national inflation rate being “2.8%” feels irrelevant.

This creates a psychological split:

• Data says things are improving.

• Your wallet says they aren’t.

 

2. Official metrics often exclude what people actually feel

Many affordability metrics:

• don’t include housing prices, only mortgage interest

• don’t include food bank usage

• don’t include debt stress

• don’t include regional cost differences

• don’t include shrinking package sizes (“shrinkflation”)

• don’t include quality-of-life losses

So a government can say “affordability is improving” while people feel squeezed because the metrics ignore the pain points that matter most.

Governments choose the framing that benefits them

This isn’t necessarily deception; it’s strategic communication.

A government might highlight:

• the one metric that looks good

• a short-term improvement

• a comparison to a worse period

• a projection rather than a current reality

Citizens, meanwhile, judge reality by:

• their bills

• their debt

• their stress

• their community’s struggles

Two different “truths” emerge.

6. When the gap becomes too large, trust collapses

If official data says “things are great” while people are borrowing money to eat, citizens conclude:

• “The data is fake.”

• “The government is lying.”

• “The media is covering for them.”

Meanwhile, officials conclude:

• “People are misinformed.”

• “They’re being manipulated.”

• “They don’t understand economics.”

This mutual distrust is the engine of epistemic fragmentation.

How this ties directly to epistemic fragmentation

Epistemic fragmentation happens when:

• official reality (data, institutions, experts) and

• experienced reality (daily life, community hardship)

stop matching.

Once that happens, society splits into incompatible camps:

Camp 1: “The data is correct; people are overreacting.”

Camp 2: “The data is meaningless; people are suffering.”

These camps no longer share:

• a common definition of affordability

• a common understanding of economic reality

• a common trust in institutions

That’s the fragmentation.

4. National-level divergence creates national-level epistemic camps

You start to see two incompatible realities:

Reality A: “The economy is strong; people are doing well.”

This group trusts official data, expert commentary, and institutional narratives.

Reality B: “People can’t afford basic necessities; the system is failing.”

This group trusts lived experience, community hardship, and alternative information sources.

Both groups believe they are looking at the real country. Both groups believe the other is misinformed.

This is epistemic fragmentation at scale.

When governments present incomplete metrics as a full picture, trust erodes

Even without intent to deceive, the effect is the same:

• People feel gaslit.

• People feel unheard.

• People feel their struggles are being minimized.

When someone is borrowing money to buy food and hears “affordability is the best it’s ever been,” the emotional reaction is:

“They must be lying.”

But the deeper problem is that the definition of affordability being used by officials no longer matches the definition used by the public.

That mismatch is the engine of epistemic fragmentation.

 

Epistemic fragmentation thrives in the space between “technically true” and “socially false”

A government can say something that is:

• technically true according to outdated metrics

• socially false according to lived experience

This is the exact kind of contradiction that fractures a society’s shared reality.

One group hears the technical truth and trusts it. Another group sees the social falsehood and rejects it.

Now you have two incompatible realities.

• one side believes the metrics define reality

• the other believes lived experience defines reality

Each side thinks the other is being dishonest.

This is why epistemic fragmentation is so corrosive: it makes even basic questions about truth impossible to resolve.

 

6. A more precise way to phrase the situation

Instead of “the government is lying,” a more accurate description is:

“The government is using metrics that no longer capture the economic reality people are living, and presenting those metrics as if they do.”

That’s not the same as intentional deception, but it produces the same social consequences as if it were.

what happens when a government than makes policy decisions based on outdated metrics and not lived reality

 

When a government makes policy decisions based on metrics that no longer reflect lived reality, the consequences are serious — not because of partisan motives, but because the system becomes misaligned with the society it’s supposed to govern. This is a structural problem, not a personality problem, and it’s something political scientists, economists, and sociologists have been warning about for years.

 

The political system becomes unresponsive

A government using outdated metrics will think:

• “Our policies are working.”

• “People are doing better.”

• “The economy is strong.”

Meanwhile, citizens are experiencing:

• rising debt

• food insecurity

• unaffordable housing

• stagnant wages

• declining quality of life

This mismatch makes the system feel unresponsive, even illegitimate.