The Big Lie

 

There was a song I heard recently that bugged me a bit. A guy gets caught red-handed cheating on his girl, and his friend says to tell her it "wasn't me".

The folks commenting upon it thought the song was "funny". What the hell is funny about the destruction of civic cohesion? For lying insistently as that can do nothing else but to destroy trust in each other. Where is society without trust?

Without trust, we enter the realm of anarchy. Is that what people really want?

I noted today that the media keep quoting Boehner about the "bloody insurrection" of January 6th. What are they trying to accomplish with this obvious falsehood? The former speaker says that it was a "bloody insurrection" and the rest of us somehow MUST agree?

When something is very obviously false, and the lying about it continues, it is a lot like the words in that song. It's like the Big Lie. In fact, it IS the Big Lie.

How do you fight the Big Lie? At the heart of it is coercion. It is likely to be followed by violence.

An example is the most recent statement of a BLM activist who threatened violence if Derek Chauvin is not found guilty. Never mind if there was a fair trial, and the evidence didn't support conviction. Never mind the truth, this activist seems to be saying.

Another example is that CBS is doubling down on their recently debunked claims about the Florida governor.

One more thing along that line. A group of companies are uniting in their oppostion to the new Georgia election law. So are we supposed to be in awe of their numbers?

If you defy their threats and refuse their demands, and they still cannot make you submit, then their power is finished. It only works if you are afraid of them.