It's the deception, stupid

Mr. Weigel talks to Rich Weinstein, who describes himself as an “investment advisor … I’m a nobody… .” Mr. Weinstein is one of those “stupid” people Mr. Gruber describes, as he believed the president when he said we could keep our health plan. When Mr. Weinstein’s own plan got canceled and he had to take one with a premium that costs twice as much, he decided to look into what all these “architects” of the law had been saying.

Mr. Weigel describes what happened next: “Weinstein’s scoop went around the world in a hurry. American Commitment, a conservative 501(c)(4) founded by Americans for Prosperity veteran Phil Kerpen, published the clip on its YouTube channel. Kerpen promoted it through tweets, which quickly became live coverage of the media outlets discovering Gruber.”

This is why the political establishment hates the Internet — it allows regular people, individuals, to change the world. This in itself presents a danger to tyrannical regimes everywhere, and to American administrations that rely on keeping you in the dark.