"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth." This is one of the primary rules of a successful propaganda operation. Today's Republican Party and "conservative" movement and their propagandists across the right-wing echo chamber use that principle to great effect. To wit: the Republican Party is not in fact "the party of family values." In reality, today's Republican Party and "conservative" movement are the enemies of the American family and children.
The most recent example is the manufactured debt ceiling "crisis," where House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the other Republicans in Congress are holding the country hostage by threatening to default on the federal government's financial obligations unless their austerity policies such as draconian cuts to healthcare, education, veteran's benefits, Medicaid, food stamps, housing assistance, and other programs are forced into place. In all, if the Republicans get their way the country's already weak social safety will be further gutted and even more money will be transferred from the American people and up to the moneyed classes and corporations. Ailen Arreaza, the Executive Director of ParentsTogether, explained how the Republican Party's proposed budget cuts will hurt America's families and children and is part of a much larger neofascist and anti-democracy campaign:
