Lies endure by the silencing of truth. I reflect on our President, and how he attacks the press, and tells us to pay it no heed, to not belief it. If he can get us to turn from the truth, it cannot harm him. Now, I will grant that our President possibly truly believes the media is wrong, and fake, and full of lies. When belief in one's self is great enough, you will refuse to belief the truth. You will reject the truth by insisting it's a lie.
Enter our president, and his rejection of truth.
Forgive, but is is we, as well who react this way. We reject the truth the same way. When someone presents facts, and suggests they are but laying the truth before us, we attack the messenger. "That is Wikipedia?" we ask. "Well, you can't trust Wikipedia." "That is Snopes? Well, you certainly can't trust Snopes!"
Liars always insist the truth is a lie.
Instead of just taking their word on it, we should examine the facts, but that will never be done if we refuse to even look at the facts. If we have been told the sources are liars -- and we believe it -- we are left in the hands of the liars. It is so, then: If the sources of truth are silenced, the public will never have the truth.
If you can control the flow of truth, you can diminish it to lies. If you can persuade the world the honest man isn't honest, the world will be left in the hands of your dishonesty.
When the truth cannot be trusted, you are left with nothing but lies.
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