Remember when we were children and got caught telling a" little white lie"? I do. My mother would say: "You're like the boy who called wolf". She was warning that the practice of telling lies becomes a habit and before long nobody believes anything that you say. Then when you were in real trouble, calling for help, nobody would come to help. It sounds so simple now: Tell the truth. Lies are dangerous. It sounds so middle-class, so middle-America, so GREAT!
That, my dear friends, is the America in which I was raised. If anyone truly wants to make America great again, this would be the first place to start.
But, let's be honest, this is NOT the idea behind making our country "great again". And, it is not just a campaign slogan, either. It is a deeply insidious belief that the more lies you tell, the less truth matters. Crying wolf in the reverse!
While it may be impossible for most of the world to believe the man-boy calling wolf, you can believe that the man-boy is a wolf in sheep's clothing trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes. Lookout!
Indeed,
Is the omission of the truth a lie?
Is the response "I don't remember." a lie?
Is the response "What difference does it make?" a lie?
Is the response "Do as I say, not as I do." a lie?
Is denial a lie?
Is "I don't know." a lie?
When we fact check and discover a lie, what is our recourse?
White men have been encouraged to lie since the beginning of recorded time; literally for any reason they may put forth, to somehow benefit themselves.
Whenever any person smiles and gladhands you then turns around and speaks ill of you or lies about you, what is your recourse? The thing that maters is the truth that there was…