Politicians have been lying since the dawn of our formerly vibrant democracy.
Random examples abound. John Adams and his pamphleteering surrogates said that Thomas Jefferson if elected would shut down all the churches. JFK tried to pump up his anti-Soviet credentials by inveighing against a Republican-created “missile gap” that in truth did not exist. Bill Clinton said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
But nothing in our history can compete with the industrial-strength lies that emanate with fascistic discipline from the mouths of the cultists who’ve already degraded our public discourse to an unprecedented degree. Steve Bannon said a few years ago that the goal was “to flood the zone with s–,” to the point where the average Joe is clueless to discern wha