Day after day, we Americans are living in a chaotic tangle of lies and delusions that imperil American democracy.<\/p>\n
Bloated prevarication is, in large part, the thriving toxic legacy cultivated by Donald Trump, who has told more than 20,000 provable lies \u2013 big and small \u2013 during his tenure as president.<\/p>\n
The bigger the lie, the more it\u2019s believed \u2013 hook, line, sinker. The following are just some of the lies that many still cherish:<\/p>\n
Early lies: Barack O\u2019Bama wasn\u2019t born in America; he is a secret Muslim; his ObamaCare is a \u201ctrainwreck\u201d that will take this country down to tatters. Man-made climate change is just fake news.<\/p>\n
Later lies: The biggest? The election was stolen, and we know because Donald tells us so. Did you know that one cause of fraud was an Italian satellite that beamed down to machines in polling places to steal Trump votes?<\/p>\n
Republican-majority state legislatures are busier than bees passing voting-suppression laws, using as an excuse another big lie \u2013 to make elections secure from rampant voter fraud. Yeah, un-hunh, tell us another one!<\/p>\n
Mike \u201cPillow Guy\u201d Lindell staged a rally at which he promised to deliver proof of the stolen election. Oops. No proof surfaced. It was because of computers on the fritz or faulty wiring at Lindell\u2019s rally hall or . . . or . . . something.<\/p>\n
Covid was a hoax. More fake news. Many believe hospital officials would write down \u201cCovid\u201d as the cause of death when, in fact, the deceased really died of heart attacks, car accidents or whatever. Tragically, so many anti-vaxxers are themselves now learning the hard way, the terminal way.<\/p>\n
We’ve heard that masks are a means of control by sinister forces, like communist-socialist-radicals, not to mention devious Democrats. True Americans stomp on masks and even harangue or punch anyone who asks them to wear one. Such anti-maskers fancy themselves freedom fighters.<\/p>\n
Vaccinations will cause people to die later or turn into reptiles or \u2013 worse \u2013 Democrats. Whatever comes first. And hey, get this!, vaccines contain micro-chips so \u201cthey\u201d (evil ones) can keep track of us.<\/p>\n
Some medicines, like horse de-worming concoctions, are good for us. But the Deep-State scoundrels keep pushing vaccines because they want people to die from them in order to keep their Covid hoax alive.<\/p>\n
We hear time and again \u201cThe Donald\u201d is a genius businessman, and that is why he was such a great president. All that talk about bankruptcies, cheating on taxes, phony foundations, stiffing contractors \u2013 just a bunch of baloney.<\/p>\n
Some lies change like chameleons. Anti-fascists perpetrated the violence at our nation\u2019s Capitol. Oops. Nope. They were loving, cop-hugging peaceniks. Rewind that tape, please. Oops. The lies grew more desperate, with some in Congress claiming the \u201cralliers\u201d were just like tourists strolling around in Capitol hallways. The current whopper? Those folks are patriots being persecuted by crooked functionaries (aka Democrats) \u2013 you know, the ones in Satan\u2019s cabal who drink babies\u2019 blood. We know because Qanon tells us so.<\/p>\n
About a third of Americans \u2013 maybe more \u2013 have come to prefer flashy lies to plain facts. Lies are more entertaining, and besides you darned well know that what\u2019s reported by the \u201clamestream media\u201d are lies and so what they don\u2019t <\/strong>report must be true. That\u2019s why they ignored the \u201cfacts\u201d about Hillary\u2019s sex-trafficking of children at a pizza joint. Big cover-up. So they tell us.<\/p>\n Now Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells us rape will be \u201celiminated\u201d from that state. Lie or delusion? Doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s his way of countering outrage about an abortion ban, even in cases of rape or incest. Is Texas going to eliminate incest too? Or just wish it away?<\/p>\n Democracies wither and die when a critical mass of the electorate prefers preposterous conspiracy theories, lies and delusions rather than facts. Some day, we just might find ourselves living in a world imagined by George Orwell in his dystopian novel, \u201c1984,\u201d in which the characters know (of course!) that 2 plus 2 equals 5. Yes it does! Because \u201cBig Brother\u201d tells us so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day after day, we Americans are living in a chaotic tangle of lies and delusions that imperil American democracy. Bloated prevarication is, in large part, the thriving toxic legacy cultivated by Donald Trump, who has told more than 20,000 provable lies \u2013 big and small \u2013 during his tenure as president. The bigger the lie,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":130504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,63,65,64],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n