Pathological lying is a very real phenomina...

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6. Those are both excellent quotes. Thank you for posting this.

George Carlin was right about so many things. I'd never seen that quote of his but I've often thought that the United States has an "original sin" in that it was founded on the labor of slaves, who were owned by people who claimed to be Christian. In order to justify this obvious hypocrisy, they created a mythology with categories of people based on their ethnicity. "White" people, who just happened to have all the power at the time, decided that being "white" meant that they were superior to everybody else. Everybody else was inferior and stereotypes were created to justify killing and enslaving them. Those lies, made up from whole cloth a few hundred years ago, persist today and make it impossible for many "white" people in the U.S. to embrace the socialism that has made many other nations around the world healthier, happier, more humane places to live. Too many "white" people in the U.S. are convinced that their money is being stolen from them and given to lazy, undesirable people.