Living in the age of lies

As children if we did something wrong, our parents would ask us to fess up. And this was usually followed up with a “Don’t you lie to me!”

This mantra continued all through childhood. You were taught that if you say one lie, it will lead to another lie until you’re buried so deep you can’t get out. Or like pathological liars, you eventually think you’re telling the truth.

Law enforcement agencies at all levels, from local police to the FBI, tell their suspects, “Don’t you lie to me, or there will be worse consequences.”

Even when applying for a job, purchasing a gun or running for Congress, we all know you’re not supposed to lie. In fact, you used to get in trouble for it.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe anyone anymore about anything. We have been lied to for so long from the top down. Americans are being treated like children, but the roles have reversed, it’s the “parents” who are doing the lying.

This truth has never been more evident than in the last six years or so. I’m going to begin with one of the biggest lies in modern times, former President Donald Trump and Russian collusion.

The problem with this lie, is the people who perpetrated it, knew they were lying and yet tried to shove it down our beaks like a momma bird feeding her chicks. We were just the stupid American public, and if the lie were repeated enough, it eventually would be believed. Or so Hillary Clinton, U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, the FBI and other fabricators thought.

We all know the story and the outcome. It shredded the last smidgeon of confidence in politicians, all the threeletter agencies and even our legal system. When it was confirmed, the entire accusation had been a hoax, no one, including the media who helped propagate the affair, never said, “Oops, we’re sorry.” a proponent of staying up with the times, I thought: It’s time for a new 10 Commandments! This thought and the following occurred to me one morning. It wasn’t anybody appearing to me and telling me them, just thoughts appearing — gifts, as all thoughts are. And these are not actually commandments. A commandment is something somebody commands you or tells you to do — action you must take or not take. I like Father Guido Sarducci’s explanation better on “Saturday Night Live”: The commandments are really like “suggestions.” They are similar to, “Always wait a half hour to go swimming after you eat.”

No, they moved on to the next lie. In the case of Mr. Trump, they just couldn’t let it go that they couldn’t hang him on the collusion lie. So they moved on to the impeachment lies.

Then perhaps the greatest swarm of lies emerged in the form of a virus.

Once again, since we’re just the stupid public. The old guilt trip maneuver was used on a national level.

Get the shot or you’re a traitor to your country and all you want to do is kill your neighbor.

However, first I need to interject that there seems to be an inverse ratio between those who voice strong support for the 10 Commandments, and those who can actually recite them!

So, here are the best commandments I can come up with for now:

1. If you claim that something is true, you have to back it up with facts that others can see for themselves.

2. Have integrity about what you say. Be clear within yourself about whether what you’re saying is: a) a fact, b) something you made up, or c) something somebody else made up. Everything we say can be only one of these three things.

3. If you can’t back something up with facts, it is called a belief. If you repeat something somebody

Remember when Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine would be 95% effective? And Moderna about 65%. And Johnson and Johnson was a one shot and done. None of it was true. Not a single word. Pfizer as we all know then said, just one more booster. OK, we were wrong, just take the second booster and you’ll be right as rain. Well, OK, for sure a third one will fix the problem. You’ll be completely protected now, and the vaccine is perfectly safe.

Huge lie. I know people who have had five shots and still got COVID. In some cases, six times.

Ah, but you won’t get it as bad. They didn’t know that either; it’s just a marketing ploy. But the lie worked, and it got people running to the pharmacy every month for another shot. Then people started dying or contracting