When is lying justified?
everyone does it all the time, don’t they?
Repeat lies long enough and the lies get accepted.
So isn’t it an obligation for patriots to expose the lies?
How bad is the problem, is it any different than it ever was?
I don’t have the answers and no one care’s about my opinion anyways, so I’ll simply share an interview I heard this morning with the founder of PoliticFact and I believe his thoughts do carry enough weight they deserve to be shared.
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PolitiFact Founder Explains the “Epidemic of Lying” in American Politics
As Americans gear up for the election, Bill Adair warns of an “epidemic of lying” in U.S. politics – particularly within the Republican Party. Adair joins the show to discuss his new book “Beyond the Lie.” As founder of the fact-checking website PolitiFact, Adair is well placed to account for where disinformation comes from, how it spreads and the danger it poses to democracy.
My opinion is equal to yours. Not worth much.
But our values are the same.
In my not worth much opinion, the root of our downfall can be traced to the Tea Party movement and Faux News. Faux News being the result of the fall of the Fairness doctrine and our love of free speech. That allowed the Glen Becks, Rush Limbaughs, Sean Hannitys, and all the rest.
Our population seems to have been overtaken by anger and stupidity. A bumper sticker society.
For me nowadays, some politicians as Trump, but he is not the only one, lie more brazenly than their predecessors, inventing anything, and are nevertheless believed.
2/3 of Trump voters believe that Haitians migrants eat the cats and the dogs of the " good US citizens"
