Friday, May 15, 2020

The Mark of a Lie is Often Another Lie

  In the meme, they toss their heads back and laugh, Barack Obama and the Clintons. "Can you believe it??  We got away with Uranium One, Benghazi, Solyndra, NSA spying, Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, cash to Iran, giving nukes to North Korea,  rigging a primary, the email scandal, and spying on Trump."
   Not a fair meme. It portrays them as being happy for doing things they are accused of. That's not an honest portrayal. The truth is, they are not sitting around laughing at those things.
  If a person has to lie to make a point, be concerned that the point might be a lie, as well. If it is clearly a lie that they are sitting around laughing at what they have done, wonder if they really did do all those horrible things, or if that is just more lying of the same.
   In a world where there is so much information, so much to decipher -- in a world where truth can be hard to determine -- consider that the person who turns a lie once, might turn it again. They leave their mark. The mark of a lie is often another lie. Truth reinforces itself with truth, but lies require more lies.

(Some rewriting done 5/16/19)

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