Kristin, I included a reference to Orwell’s 1984 in my comment, too. Thank you for expanding with links to articles about the dangers of “Trump’s America.” The fact that the repub lies are not challenged supports how effective the repub campaign and party are: lying, banning books, ignoring security risks, and essentially not governing. It’s the Wild West.
Kristin, I included a reference to Orwell’s 1984 in my comment, too. Thank you for expanding with links to articles about the dangers of “Trump’s America.” The fact that the repub lies are not challenged supports how effective the repub campaign and party are: lying, banning books, ignoring security risks, and essentially not governing. It’s the Wild West.
"rereading Orwell, one is reminded of what Orwell got right about this kind of brute authoritarianism—and that was essentially that it rests on lies told so often, and so repeatedly, that fighting the lie becomes not simply more dangerous but more exhausting than repeating it.”
I think that big lies and big liars have been part of the human condition so long as out species has existed, but big lies in our society on a national scale have ebbed and flowed, simultaneously, with the balance shifting now and again. I think that the endlessly repeat big lies, no matter what, became a central strategy to the former Republican Party with Reagan, and that big lies, inadequately called out and concertedly resisted, have become increasingly dangerous over time. Perhaps the sheer transparency of the cultivated social psychosis is now enough to energize sufficient and widespread resistance. If not, we'll be in a hell of a fix.
Kristin, I included a reference to Orwell’s 1984 in my comment, too. Thank you for expanding with links to articles about the dangers of “Trump’s America.” The fact that the repub lies are not challenged supports how effective the repub campaign and party are: lying, banning books, ignoring security risks, and essentially not governing. It’s the Wild West.
"rereading Orwell, one is reminded of what Orwell got right about this kind of brute authoritarianism—and that was essentially that it rests on lies told so often, and so repeatedly, that fighting the lie becomes not simply more dangerous but more exhausting than repeating it.”
I think that big lies and big liars have been part of the human condition so long as out species has existed, but big lies in our society on a national scale have ebbed and flowed, simultaneously, with the balance shifting now and again. I think that the endlessly repeat big lies, no matter what, became a central strategy to the former Republican Party with Reagan, and that big lies, inadequately called out and concertedly resisted, have become increasingly dangerous over time. Perhaps the sheer transparency of the cultivated social psychosis is now enough to energize sufficient and widespread resistance. If not, we'll be in a hell of a fix.