Interestingly the left has been a master firehose of falsehood for years achieving mastery of the technique during the Trump administration as media, politicians and tech collude. The right has been slow to catch up but clearly have become quite skilled at this game as well. Lucky us to be pawns in a power struggle to the death. Your article is a mini firehose of falsehood fostering polarization and confusion because it ignores the big picture and the incredible abuses of the other side. How disingenuous.
The past week shows one of the consequences of a lack of commitment to truth. Without being fed repeated lies, that mob wouldn't have been so motivated to mount an insurrection.
It's time to stop the both-sides-ism. Political spin may be unfortunate, but it is a given. An orchestrated campaign of repeated, outright falsehoods is something entirely different. And unlike political spin, it can easily lead to violence.
The ‘firehose of falsehood’ applies equally to the BLM outcries with every publicized ‘white cop shoots black’ event and, more recently, to the excuses made by proposition 16 supporters in CA of their failed attempt (once again) to enact affirmative action laws. Maybe the ‘firehose’ provides too much pressure for our fragile minds to withstand?
Interestingly the left has been a master firehose of falsehood for years achieving mastery of the technique during the Trump administration as media, politicians and tech collude. The right has been slow to catch up but clearly have become quite skilled at this game as well. Lucky us to be pawns in a power struggle to the death. Your article is a mini firehose of falsehood fostering polarization and confusion because it ignores the big picture and the incredible abuses of the other side. How disingenuous.
The past week shows one of the consequences of a lack of commitment to truth. Without being fed repeated lies, that mob wouldn't have been so motivated to mount an insurrection.
It's time to stop the both-sides-ism. Political spin may be unfortunate, but it is a given. An orchestrated campaign of repeated, outright falsehoods is something entirely different. And unlike political spin, it can easily lead to violence.
The ‘firehose of falsehood’ applies equally to the BLM outcries with every publicized ‘white cop shoots black’ event and, more recently, to the excuses made by proposition 16 supporters in CA of their failed attempt (once again) to enact affirmative action laws. Maybe the ‘firehose’ provides too much pressure for our fragile minds to withstand?