When the truth is skewed, misreported or baldly
misrepresented, it is difficult to determine what is the truth and what is not.
That is where we find ourselves today.
The Washington Post analyzed trump’s white house tenure and
counted 1950 misrepresentations/lies in 347 days of office. That’s quite a bit.
But it is typical of a propagandist. The tool of those who want to mislead you
is propaganda – a deliberate misstatement of reality. Why? Because they know
they confuse the situation and soon thereafter, we are dealing with reports,
not facts.
That’s how Hitler did his deeds of evil. So too Gadhafi,
Syria’s Assad, Putin, Stalin, Lenin, and so many other despots and evil doers.
They simply told others what they wanted them to believe. In time there were too few benchmarks left to k now what was fact and what was not.
In is out; down is up. I’ve been saying this for years.
We have observed this in the republican hatred of Clinton –
both Bill and Hillary. Unfounded complaints, lawsuits and investigations. No
wrong-doing was found other than a sexual peccadillo of Bill’s. And that was not
illegal. Nothing has ever been proven against Hillary, but that doesn’t stop
trump from making his wild claims, or the republicans for many years making the
same claims.
Obama was hated by those who are white supremacists; or even
those who are simply racists. They cast distrust on Obama merely because he was
a black man in the ‘white’ house. Not possible in American, you say? Oh, very
possible says I! We have 8 years of proof of this skullduggery.
When Americans believe what they read or hear, we are all in
trouble. So many wanted to believe trump that they ultimately did. Then they
couldn’t admit they made an error. And we have the governance debacle we face
today. All because of lies, propaganda and simple-minded belief in fantasy.
Well, I won’t tell you what is ahead of us because of all
this. I will tell you, dear readers, that we have much trouble ahead and that
is the only thing that will bring some people around to alertness. Only then,
when they are hurting and mad and confused, will they finally admit that trump
is a colossal error and highly destructive as well.
It will take years of hard work to clean up the mess. Foreign
affairs is just one area. International peace is another. So too international
economics. Domestic ills will be even worse as runaway inflation, crumbling
health care industry, and a stagnating economy take tolls on the average
American Joe. No one needs to believe me. But they will believe their own
experience.
I only hope propagandists will have the grace to keep silent
as we weather the hell and make the repairs.
Our nation is of, for and by the people. For good or ill,
right or wrong, we are responsible for our own nightmares. Why? Because, one
way or another, we caused them.
January 4, 2018
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