Why do Republicans deliberately and knowingly use so many big lies as campaign tools?

Let me be very clear here. It’s common wisdom that all politicians lie, and truth be told, presidential candidates routinely campaign as if they are running for King or Dictator. They say things like, “If I am elected, on day one I will…” when the fact is that most of the policies they are discussing require the action of Congress. They simply can’t do this, that and the other on day one by decree. But it’s well understood that they are telling us what policies they advocate. They are saying they will push Congress to pass their policy initiatives, and sign them of they come to their desk in acceptable form. I’m also not talking about politicians who promise to do something, then have to give up on it because Congress or the Courts say No, or because it becomes obvious it is so politically harmful to them and their party that doing it will torpedo the rest of their agenda.

I am talking here about saying things that are bald-faced lies but that can be sold through skillful propaganda to a gullible public, particularly one led by a press like Fox News and the right wing talk radio hosts who are propagandists for the billionaire financiers that put together the 50-state network of Right-wing think tanks and PR firms now setting GOP ideas and talking points. Here is an answer I wrote on Sodahead detailing the massive funding billionaire would-be oligarchs pour into setting Republican Party policy and talking points today; and keeping a propaganda machine working in the right-wing media and on the Web to support their push toward a corporatist oligarchy they control.

Here are some examples of Big Lie politics at work in this election cycle.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/kevin-mccarthy-and-gops-three-big-lies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-gops-big-lie-on-obama-and-jobs/2012/01/06/gIQAT5HzeP_blog.html
http://robertreich.org/post/
http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/the-republican-big-lies-about-taxes/4031113622

I welcome any right-wing apologists who wish to dispute that what I list as lies are lies. Bring it. But to those who realize that some or all of the above and more are Big Lie politics at work, and who don’t dwell in Fox News’ fact-free zone, what are Republicans trying to hide behind the deliberate litany of lies? Will their real policies be good or bad for most of us here in America?

To think about that, we have to look at how Big Lie politics came to be. The idea of the Big Lie was perfected by Adolph Hitler and his propaganda chief, Joseph Gobbets, who famously said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Hitler’s reason for lying was abundantly clear. He wanted to do things that the German people would have never supported had he told the truth. As Gobbels noted, “the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Now that’s only so when the political leadership controlling the state wants to do things that they dare not disclose. So what is the man behind the GOP curtain hiding while he pulls the levers and cranks to simulate The Great and Powerful Oz?