There are two basic types of truth, the capital "T" truth and the lower case "t" truth. The first is what we hold as ultimate truth, our beliefs, our understanding of how the world/universe works. I am not talking about that Truth here.
The second is "the" truth. This involves facts, what actually happens. It involves numbers, language, observation in the real world.
Not only has there been an assault on the truth, (lower-case "t") lately, but in some cases, it has been kidnapped, possibly held for ransom. Perhaps, it has been replaced with the changelings Alternate Facts and Fake News.
The problem is not that we can't tell these are changelings, (you know, the beings fairies exchanged good little children for), but we are getting used to having them around. We know Alternate Facts just spouts fabrications. We even laugh sometimes at her blatant misuse of information and data. We know that although the main stream media does cover the changelings too often and too deeply, it does try to get the story right most of the time, when it is not afraid of being called "enemy of the people."
Cute little Fake News is very active, but not where current politicians direct our attention. Conservatives/Republicans cry out, for example, that some social media has banned Alex Jones from their platforms, yet also cry out against the media reporting on the kidnapping of children by US Government officials at the border as the work of Fake News.
Alex Jones consistently employs Fake News and her consorts to tell Americans that Sandy Hook was a hoax and a spate of other ridiculous false tales, while there is every kind of physical evidence of the border child kidnappings.
Kelly Anne Conway, Mr. Trump's nurturer of young Alternative Facts insists her protege is alive and well and explains all Mr. Trumps forays into the land of untruth. For many, Alternative Facts is their darling. It lets them continue to pledge their allegiance to Mr. Trump while maintaining their personal belief that lying is a sin (or at least that is what their Judeo-Christian faith tells them they should believe). It's not lying, it's Alternative Facts.
There are a few ways we can tell that truth has been missing for a while and its absence was barely noticed.
- Even Democrats believed Republican lies that Nancy Pelosi was an ineffective leader.
- Millions ignore the overwhelming evidence of human activity causing global warming, so leaders do nothing.
- Republicans/conservatives are guaranteed to bow to the choice of Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justice, but Democrats are buying the nonsense that if they don't vote for Kavanaugh, we'll get someone worse.
- Immigrants are criminals, so it really doesn't matter what happens to them. They have no right to be here. Separated from their children? That's their fault.
- Corporations have the people's interests at heart or they couldn't make any money.
- There is an infinite amount of fraud in our voting system.
- Republican/conservative legislators name bills that will do exactly opposite of their title and don't see a problem with it.
- Russia didn't meddle in the 2016 election, so we should fire Robert Mueller.
Truth is missing from the current administration and Republican party in general. Her loss is being felt by everyone whether they know it or not. We need to get out and actively look for her and replace the changelings with veracity, you know, the basic honesty we were taught as children. We need to send those changelings back to hades where they came from.
