Walter Rhett: Proclaim 9/11 As a Day For Truth

[DemocratsForProgress]

If you are a politician, lying, whether deliberate, inadvertent, accidental, unintentionally, for effect or on purpose should be punishable as treason, with a minimum sentence of 50 years, spent translating Chinese press releases. Lies affect more than facts; lies affect the sequence of actions that politics follows, the causes and courses that the nation pursues, and the way resistance is formed. Important but often overlooked, lies create distraction and massive waste.

Not that anybody believes the lie, but lying gives others the power and approval to lie. That’s its political magic: lying enables itself, whether we believe or not! When it comes to lies, Democrats focus on belief; Republicans focus on its social power. Refuting a lie doesn’t diminish its power; lying appeals to a false freedom that flaunts the rules.

Today, 9/11, a day that should be honored by a reverence for truth and its associated virtues of sacrifice and love, will be a signature day for lies held under the breath of those who recall the national grief.

Today, no Republicans will come forth to admit that he or she has attacked women by trying to weaken rape laws, falsely creating new definitions of rape, or denying women the option of abortion in the case of rape. They will not admit that their pseudo-science was an assault in itself. They will not acknowledge trying to exclude Native American women from the protections of the Violence Against Women Act in a false issue of sovereignty that granted white men impunity to rape Indian women on reservations—native land...

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