Truth is the most powerful force in human society. Lies are the second most powerful, and often overshadow truth for a time. Lies that have dominated US history for centuries are gradually crashing down around the liars. They are now the glaciers once held back by floating ice shelves that are melting away and breaking up, so that the glaciers behind them can speed to the oceans in many times their normal glacial speed. And we can make them go even faster by heating the ice from below.
How’s that for a Lakoff Don’t Think of an Elephant metaphor?
Don’t fall into their traps. Start with the truth, not these lies.
These are the principal lies.
- White Supremacy, along with all of the fears and hatreds about everyone else ganging up on them, as they suppose, in exactly the manner that they have been ganging up on all the rest of us. Just like the Lord’s Prayer teaches.
- The Big Lie
- Let’s Go Brandon and other obscene Dog Whistles and outright lies directed at the President
- Voter suppression is the only way to secure honest and fair voting
- Covid denial and grifting
- Anti-White racism is the worst
- Blaming Antifa and Black Lives Matter for their own violence
- Critical Race Theory
- Global Warming and other science denial
- Fahrenheit 850 or X the Unknown book bannings
- Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head
- Bogus economics: Trickle-Down Voodoo Reaganomics, Market Fundamentalism, pretending that monopoly power is normal and desirable in a Free Market
- Starve the Beast
- No, you work for the Russians or the Chinese
- Butter e-mails!