From Water to Whine
How All the Little Lies Keep Trumpism Alive
The LA Times has an editorial about why the president and his party cling so desperately to lies.
They start with one little lie, but one that really matters in the West—a lie about water. Trump claimed he “sent in the military” to “open a valve” in California that will end all water shortages and wildfires. (Uhm, nope, they didn’t, he didn’t, it won’t, not at all, see the editorial.)
But after the water discussion, the LA Times shows how all these little lies add up. Whether it is election denial or FBI plots, the lies enforce loyalty, activate hatreds, and ultimately hide what Trump is really doing:
Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign to evade legal accountability and bend government to his will, purging prosecutors involved in the Jan. 6 criminal cases, firing independent watchdogs at departments including the Environmental Protection Agency and seeking to force out millions of federal workers he has construed as potentially disloyal to him.
The subtitle is “Whatever happened to truth, justice, and the American way?”
Was that ever, really, a thing? Was “the American way” real? How can we make it real, and ask for truth and justice?
Column: Trump's lies are dragging down democracy, journalism and the climate
Whatever happened to truth, justice and the American way?
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My grandmother used to quote the old adage: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time." Hopefully, that is true. And some people will see the truth and act. And, you can't fool mother nature. Climate change will happen whether anyone believes it is happening. It is just all the suffering that will happen unnecessarily. I read "Erasing History" by Jason Stanley. He said: "To resist the slide into cruelty is perhaps the most important goal of a people." Unfortunately, there will be no civic compassion in MAGAland. NPR had Vance on this morning rewriting the Christian mandate to love your neighbor. He said it means to love your family, your friends, your community, your nation--and then to help the outsider. Neighbor then becomes only those in your circle. What happened to the parable of the Good Samaritan? They even reinterpet the bible.