George Conway: What I really believe

[Zorro]

I believe in truth, democracy and the rule of law. I believe in a lot of other things as well, but after the past four years, these seem most important now.

I believe truth isn’t always easy to find, or to face. I believe that, as human beings, we tend to believe what we want to believe, because that’s easier, more soothing and convenient. But I believe, as the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) said, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. I believe that if you don’t change your views as you learn new facts, then many of the facts you believe probably aren’t facts.

I believe Donald Trump is an enemy of truth. I believe he’s a con man, a pathological liar — now the most prodigiously documented liar in American history, if not the history of the world. I believe he doesn’t care about, and may not even fully comprehend, the difference between truth and lies, between honesty and mendacity. I believe he has always said what he wants to believe, what he wants others to believe, and what he thinks he can get away with, and always will.

I believe that, as president, Trump was a danger to democracy and the rule of law, precisely because he was a danger to truth. But I believe his lies weren’t necessarily the most damaging ones to our country. Equally harmful, if not more so, were the lies that allowed him to flourish — not just others’ repetition of his lies, but also lies that many told themselves and others to justify not contradicting him — that you can’t take him literally, that you need to look at what he does or that his policies justified it all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/19/george-conway-what-i-really-believe/

[Doodley]

1. What does that say about Kellyanne Conway?

[marble falls]

4. Love's blind, and she's the mother of his child. He's no Baldwin, himself.

[Pantagruel]

2. Agree

"Trump was a danger to democracy and the rule of law, precisely because he was a danger to truth."

Maybe an Office of Official Fact Check might be needed, should be the job of the Press but the advent of Faux News and partisan reporting has destroyed their credibility. Not exactly sure of how to do it, but lies should have tangible consequences.

[Laelth]

3. Hear! Hear! k&r n/t

-Laelth