Yes, we're definitely in a "post-truth" era these days. It is incredible to me how many people remain convinced that widespread voter fraud happened in 2020 and is the reason Trump lost. More than 60 courts, some of them with Trump-appointed judges, threw out the frivilous lawsuits claiming that, and some of the lawyers were fined for bringing them. Multiple investigations and vote recounts, often overseen by Trump supporters looking for evidence of widespread fraud failed to uncover it. Bill Barr, until recently a Trump supporter, testified under oath that those claims were "bullshit" and that Trump knew that but didn't care what the "actual facts" were. Yet the Big Lie continues to spread, and politicians who embrace it get elected.
Yes, Wendi, thanks for responding! And that's just the very obvious ways in which truth has been thrown into the trash-heap. I mean, obviously, he's not the first *politician to play fast and loose with truth, but geez does he shred it more openly than anyone. "Sowing doubt" is a definite playbook. Makes me admire George Orwell and his depiction of his era in 1984 even more. Not really a future I'd like to see come to pass.
Yes, we're definitely in a "post-truth" era these days. It is incredible to me how many people remain convinced that widespread voter fraud happened in 2020 and is the reason Trump lost. More than 60 courts, some of them with Trump-appointed judges, threw out the frivilous lawsuits claiming that, and some of the lawyers were fined for bringing them. Multiple investigations and vote recounts, often overseen by Trump supporters looking for evidence of widespread fraud failed to uncover it. Bill Barr, until recently a Trump supporter, testified under oath that those claims were "bullshit" and that Trump knew that but didn't care what the "actual facts" were. Yet the Big Lie continues to spread, and politicians who embrace it get elected.
Yes, Wendi, thanks for responding! And that's just the very obvious ways in which truth has been thrown into the trash-heap. I mean, obviously, he's not the first *politician to play fast and loose with truth, but geez does he shred it more openly than anyone. "Sowing doubt" is a definite playbook. Makes me admire George Orwell and his depiction of his era in 1984 even more. Not really a future I'd like to see come to pass.