I think intuitively, we know that our leaders and the leaders of our leaders (YES! This moneyed, lobbying class exists) lie to us. The problem lies in that despite knowing this, we tend to believe these lies or at least not to get angry and demand that lies not be tolerated, that there be consequences for lying to the public.
Why do we tolerate our leaders lying to us? Well, I think it is because lying has become the norm, we all do it, accept it, and “hey, no big problem, really!”
I don’t agree. The truth is an obligation from those in power, those in the public forum. Without that truth, it is all just a ruse, a charade, a hood pulled over our heads. And we keep electing the same buffoons based on the same lies - the lie that they are looking after our best interests while all the while “on the take”, enriching themselves and destroying the world.
And the lies aren’t just verbal. So many lies of pretense and appearance. Looking, playing the role of the “man of the people”. Or like Musk or Trump or Bush, a self-made man who made their own way up.
But maybe at this point, you are thinking, “What lies? I don’t think anyone is lying, especially outright lying.”
Well, let me share a few examples, just off the top of my head.
ISIL Terrorists killed in retaliation for Kabul airport bombing. LIE. They actually killed 10, 7 of them children. All innocent. Yet, government officials stood before the cameras and declared America vindicated, triumphant in revenge on the terrorists. And the American war machine has lied for years - saying civilians are not killed and the drones know exactly what they are doing. Take Pakistan as an example. 1,000s of innocent civilians killed - but hey, America always gets their man. And we might as well put Biden’s lie in this category - he said, “I’ll never sell arms to the Saudis”. LIE. He just did.
Fauci, the famed chief advisor over the Covid 19 pandemic and director of the NIAID sat before congress and swore, stating that no government funding of gain of function coronavirus research occurred. LIE. It did occur. Emails confirm, the US government and the Pentagon with Fauci’s knowledge did fund the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Lab for experiments making coronaviruses more infectious (basically for purposes of war). See Fauci challenged and squirm in his seat and in his too tight suit.
James Clapper, Director of American Intelligence. The NSA (National Security Agency) does not collect any type of data on hundreds of millions of Americans. LIE. The NSA does and continues to know everything you do and everything about you. It is a total Orwellian world.
These are just 3 gross examples off the top of my head. And these officials are all still active in their positions, being promoted, well compensated for the LIES they’ve told.
My point is … we need to hold officials to account. We aren’t. We accept the lies because that is just how it is … But do we want to live in a world like this? Where leaders pledge X and Y happens (like the recent COP 26)?
Let’s stop believing the lies of the axe. Period. Time for the trees to fight back.
View my piece - LIES.
And thousands of other lies go unchallenged!