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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Truth Reckoning: Why We're Holding Those Who Lied For Trump Accountable
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Yesterdays insurrection was rooted in lies. That a fair election was stolen. That a significant defeat was actually a landslide victory. That the worlds oldest democracy, ingeniously insulated via autonomous state voting regimens, is a rigged system. Such lies-upon-lies, repeated frequently and fervently, provided the kindling, the spark, the gasoline.
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In this time of transition and pain reinvigorating democracy requires a reckoning. A truth reckoning. Starting with the people paid by the People to inform the People.
As someone in the business of facts, its been especially painful to watch President Trumps press secretaries debase themselves. Yes, as with their political bosses, spins and omissions and exaggerations are part of the game. But ultimately in PR, core credibility is the coin of the realm.
From Day One at the Trump White House, up has been down, yes has been no, failure has been success. Sean Spicer set the tone with the inauguration crowd size the worst kind of whopper, as it demanded that people disbelieve their own eyes. The next day, Kellyanne Conway defended Spicers lie with a new term, alternative facts. Spicers successor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied at scale, from smearing those who accused Trump of sexual harassment to conjuring jobs statistics. Her successor, Stephanie Grisham, over the course of a year, never even held a press conference, though the BS continued unabated across friendly outlets. And finally, Kayleigh McEnany, Harvard Law graduate, a propaganda prodigy at 32 who makes smiling falsehood an art form. All of this magnified by journalists too often following an old playbook ill-prepared for an Orwellian communication era.
As American democracy rebounds, we need to return to a standard of truth when it comes to how the government communicates with the governed. The easiest way to do that, from where I sit, is to create repercussions for those who dont follow the civic norms. Trumps lawyers lie gleefully to the press and public, but those lies, magically, almost never made it into briefs and arguments contempt, perjury and disbarment keep the professional standards high.
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they might get unemployment insurance for awhile.
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A Truth Reckoning: Why We're Holding Those Who Lied For Trump Accountable (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Jan 2021
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Arne
(2,117 posts)1. FCC must be cleaned disinfected and laws passed or re enacted.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,811 posts)2. PROPAGANDISTS each and every one of them....
They will forever be tied to the Orange anus.