Reclaiming veracity in a post-Trump world

Reclaiming veracity in a post-Trump world 

Scalise  and Paul prove the truth of the aphorism "ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies." Everyone knows the answer except those who are fooling themselves. Let it go and even the fools will not remember the lie.

Voting suppression will stop once the John Lewis Act passes to restore pre-clearance. Might I suggest that any state with documented attempts at voter suppression make the list, including Pennsylvania and North Dakota.

Some lies politicians tell are personal and some are political. The personal ones are a way of saying "stay out of my business." The professional ones might actually be a good thing. What is not said becomes the biggest lie of all. 

For instance, the pro-life side ignoring the fact that there is no constitutional way to recognize the humanity of the unborn without having to register every pregnancy and investigate any losses. That is the only question for public policy. Anything else is emotionalism, including tidbits about DNA. BTW, until gastrulation, and even after, the Chorion and Placenta are part of the woman's body.

Another lie people get away with is calling Wall Street investment the same thing as investment in plant and equipment. IT IS NOT! It is saving (actually, gambling) and therefore not part of GDP.

The problem with Democrats is not that they over promise, but that they spend too much time doing electoral politics rather than governing. At least we know the GOP is trying to steal everything it can.

Believing in science is shorthand for believing in scientists, which shuts out real science in service of cultural issues. The meme that Trump killed people in the pandemic is a similar meme. The reality is that the medical community are covering their asses on opening things up and blind to how the virus really spreads. They are so wed to masking that they don't tell people that their "seasonal allergy" symptoms that went away after a week were COVID. I say were, because we are at vector saturation (herd immunity).

The "free speech movement" was a reaction to Catholic hubris in regulating culture. Anti-Catholicism in the founding was a reaction to papal opposition to republicanism - sparked by America - which fueled the hopes and victories of Garibaldi and his revolution against the papal state. 

The Church still needs to grapple with their desire for religious power - which they claim to be a right of religious freedom. Power over employees and consumers of birth control or gay weddings is not a desire for liberty in anyone's world but their own warped minds. 

Their minds are warped, by the way, because they conflate their undistinguished asexuality with holiness. They are as LGBTQIA as the gay priests in their midsts (and the gays are not the ones who are dangerous to children).