FIGHT THE LIES — TOGETHER!!

Knowing what I do of human nature, I should not expect this post to be popular.
Lies.
The whole right-wing noise machine and fascism now incipient here and flourishing in other countries is based on lies.
Sometimes those in the center or on the left get caught up in lies too, but there’s a world of difference between getting temporarily caught up in lies and basing one’s whole life upon them. Can I get an amen somewhere from someone?
Most of those on the Left (except those who have become Islamist stooges) and in the center at least try to discern truth and live by it. From my own experience, the most consistently reliable way to do this is through a relationship with God, or the Higher Power or whatever inadequate words language provides you prefer to use, through whatever figure you find most helpful. I happen to believe that is Yeshua HaMeshiach, better known as Jesus the Christ. But that’s just me; I’m not here to proselytize you but just to give you an idea whence I come.
And since at least 1980 (and very likely well before that) too many of my fellow citizens have sought lies which they feel comfort them and reinforce that wonderful feeling of being superior to other beings with any number of legs from two to thousands (millipedes).
The late Eric Hoffer, one of my all-time favorite philosophers, wrote in his book Before The Sabbath, that he thought that America was the worst place for alibis to survive. Then again, he wrote that in 1975, when more Americans seemed interested in the truth. I shudder to think what he must feel now if he’s looking down on us!
Now, we are faced with…