Who do you believe?

This has got the problem of the ages.  Who do you trust to give you the truth?

Do you trust Conservatives?  Liberals? Middle of the road types?  Libertarians?  Or, Fascists?  Communists?  Catholics?  Protestants?

In short, who do you trust to tell it like it is?

No matter what group you follow, they all have a bias in their own favor.  That is the unavoidable fact.  Yes, I'd say Christians too, even though they are not supposed to.

Can you think of someone who was less biased in his own behalf than Jesus of Nazareth?  He didn't save himself from the cross.  It would have been so easy to do so.

Now, the question remains:  who do you trust?  Maybe you could trust Jesus of Nazareth, but that was 2000 years ago, and it didn't help him at all.  It doesn't help when those who say they honor him do not.

See what I mean?  Maybe you cannot trust anybody.  But that isn't an option either.  You have to trust somebody, but nobody seems to be worthy of it.

It is a problem.

The assumption is that people want the truth.  Leave aside the truth, then it becomes what do you want to believe?  Ultimately, for many people today, truth is whatever you want to believe.  That is a subjective approach to the subject.  It conflicts with the objective approach.  The objective truth is what is true regardless of how you feel about it.

If objectivity isn't desired, then truth isn't desired.  Because the truth is independent of desire.  It matters not what you want if you want truth.  You would have to set aside your desires, and accept the truth for what it is.  People are not likely to want to do that these days.  In fact, it appears that the culture is training people to see truth as whatever they want it to be.

The alternative is acceptance.  Fighting the truth is only going to make things worse.

Once you are prepared to accept the truth, then you have to be prepared to seek it.  Otherwise, it is meaningless to accept what you do not wish to know.

You have to decide then who to believe, even though everybody seems to be pushing their own biases in their own favor.

You can believe someone who does not have anything to gain from what they claim to be true.  How do you determine that?  You have to do some work to get at it.  Getting the truth is not necessarily easy when there are those who are standing in the way of having it revealed.

The person who stands in the way of truth should not be readily believed.

Now why write all this?

It seems that people are falling for too much stuff that cannot be true.  For somebody has to be right, and somebody has to be wrong.  But nobody wants to admit that they are wrong, for they may have something to lose if they were to make such an admission.  Conflicting stories cannot both be true.

You have to decide who to believe and who to trust.  Hopefully, the choice will be the correct one.

Republicans or Democrats?  Gonna have to choose.

I choose Republican.  But I am of that inclination anyway.  If you are of a Democrat inclination, then why would you believe me?  I think the Republicans tend more toward the objective than the Democrats.  The Democrats are quite open about their desires to push the subjective buttons.  I don't trust them.

But I don't trust the GOP either.  One thing I believe though.  That they cannot afford to betray their stated principles, and as long as Trump doesn't betray those, they cannot impeach him.  Their credibility is at stake.

I don't believe that Trump should be forced out.  Furthermore, I don't think there has been probable cause for the Mueller investigation.  I suspect the investigation is being pursued for political reasons by those who have something to gain or lose.  This is an abuse of power.  The fault then lies with those who impeach the president, and not the president himself.

There are a lot of distractions out there, and I won't comment upon those.  This matter of credibility is the central issue for me.   The rest pales in comparison.