Do you lie?

There's a scene in the movie called "Departed" that may be useful in understanding the motives for lying. There are different kinds of lies. At least two, perhaps more. One of those kinds is called "The Big Lie". This is a lie of epic proportions. It is the kind of lying that Hitler's Nazi Germany liked to employ. Then there are those kind of lies that seem harmless, otherwise known as "white lies".

As for the movie scene, DiCaprio's character, who was an undercover cop, asks his therapist if she lies. She admitted that she did, and so they discussed some of the motivations for lying. She said it was to keep "an even keel". It seems to be a feminine characteristic to tell little white lies in order to "keep an even keel". What does that even mean? Does it mean to smooth things over? To avoid confrontations? To be "nice"?

The current events today appear to be the Big Lie version of lying. It seems that the GOP does not want to confront the Democrats about their incessant lying. Jeb Bush seems to be like the woman in the movie. He would serve as an archtype of the kind of person who would accept The Big Lie in order to "keep an even keel". When Bush criticized Trump for being the cause of "chaos", he was advocating a type of enablement of lying that facilitates their craft. Bush enables the left when he refuses to take on the left and their incessant lying.

There are many of those in the GOP like Bush. Could the recent court decision about making a new protected class the same kind of LYING that's being enabled? Why can't these decisions be challenged? It seems that all too many of these Bush types want to keep an "even keel" and accept what should be intolerable to any reasonable person.

You don't see the left accepting TRUTH, even if it is reasonable and obvious.

They will fight on any point at all times. They'll fight even when they are wrong and they are very willful about it. Why wouldn't they be? It works for them. It will work until something causes it not to work anymore.

But all we get on the GOP side is a lot of Bush types who want to keep an even keel. It is just a soft word for COWARDICE.