they won because they lied. over, and over, and over. they built a whole ecosystem of lies. [View all]
i have often traced our problems back to the day we stopped calling lies lies, and started calling them spin. back in the days of st ronnie.
these lies played on our fears and our prejudices. because if ppl had known the truth- ie, undocumented ppl add trillions to our economy and see few of the benefits, commit very little crime compared to murikans, how cd they see them as such a threat? so they had to lie, and keep telling bigger and bigger lies. AND GETTING AWAY W IT.
no 1 is aborting babies after birth. no 1 is doing sex changes on kids. mexicans commit fewer rapes and murders than good ole boys.
and the whole pedo thing. THEY’RE the pedos. conservatives, clergy and cops. they have pedos who have been caught in their upper ranks. not to mention tsf, whose pedophilia is widely know, yet rarely discussed.
that’s the truth, and back in that day such an obvious lie wd get u laughed off the stage. but these days it gets u the spotlight. many who proport to speak the truth shade and shave it now. cuz if u speak the whole truth about some of these things, ppl dont want to look at it. they turn away.
we shd have seen the danger of their separate reality a long time ago.
the only way forward is to make america honest again. and that starts w grappling w some of the ugly truths about this country and it’s history.
we arent special. we have been horrible as often as we have been great.
maybe the upside is, after this is all over, we’ll have shown ourselves to b ordinary, stupid, violent, greedy bastards in ways that we wont b able to spin.
as gloria steinem once said- the truth will set u free, but 1st it will rly piss u off.
we have to tell the truth until even the powerful ppl get pissed off. til even the ppl who benefit from the lies get pissed off.
we have a long way to go.
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