We're looking at generations of lies among Republicans. Families, phyla and genera of lies. Classes and kingdoms of lies. The lies evolve and mutate, displaying a level of adaptability. We need an entire taxonomy of lies. An encyclopedia of duplicity and deceit. An OED of Orwellian redefinition, in which the starting point is the assumption that the truth is a lie and facts are fluid.
Whose interests does this serve? Those already in power. We forget that the 'news' is what's new and not designed to be coherent. It's streaming content. By coherent I mean the story within or beneath the 'news.' The trend or trajectory. The story. The story as in WWII. American media took sides. Victory and defeat. We won or lost or what happened within an assumed or stated context.
The rich people are waging a war on America. They corrupted and bought the Republican Party, dragging Democrats along to a degree. Fox News presents a story. A huge lie of a story. The opposite of the truth. There's nothing comparable on the Democratic side. Democrats think it's beneath them, and giving up, to become so utterly partisan. So they continue to lose influence.
And this is a war, a second revolution, and Democrats are losing at the expense of the truth and constitutional and moral authority.
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