🕵️‍ Veracity Wherefore Art Thou ❓

 

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet , Juliet called out “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo”. Thus I have dare tinkered with the words of the immortal Bard to make a point. Romeo quickly came into Juliet’s view and all was well. Or it was well until they both died which has always puzzled me why his play is so popular. I tend to like happy endings. But back to the search for veracity.

Most people will tell you they want to know the truth. And that is lie number one. Most people want to be told whatever reinforces their preconceived notions. Because of that, for most humans, a lie works better than the truth.

I haven’t always told the truth. I am, after all only human. But I have come to see that only with the truth is a life worthwhile. Truth doesn’t have to be pleasant or what you want to hear or even believable. It simply is the truth.

Whenever I hear a politician speak I wonder what lies they’re telling. Because they all lie. Even the best of them, the few and far between that are actually good people, they lie too. It’s what a politician must do to get elected and then re-elected. Voters don’t vote for people that tell them the truth, or at least the whole truth.

While the cartoon below skewers Hillary Clinton she certainly isn’t alone in believing it’s better to prevaricate and attempt to hide the truth. No matter how many times it is proven that a cover up is worse than the truth – politicians will try to cover-up.

The public would get more truth from both politicians and the media if they  refused to accept nonsense. When voters believe fantastic hyperbolic rubbish coming from either media or politicians they reject the truth. When the tribal instincts kick in and people repeat the hyperbole, truth is lost.

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” ~ Frederick Douglass

Do we think our nation is honest, truthful and virtuous? Only if we lie to ourselves. Look around and see what our culture has become.

I heard one of my granddaughters listening to some rap crap and wondered to my daughter-in-law that she permitted such ugliness in her house. She laughed and patted me on the shoulder and reminded me that my father had worried about Elvis and that I had worried that my sons listened to Ozzie Obourne, among others. So she wasn’t concerned about rap music.

First, don’t pat my shoulder condescendingly and second am I the only one in the family that sees the escalation from swivel hips, by a man who often sang hymns – to a man who bit the heads off bats and doves – to music talking about “ho’s and “nigga’s and killing cops?

Perhaps too many of us have simply become too lazy too bother with the truth. Perhaps it is the corrupted culture that surrounds us. There are many reasons and many excuses but none is worthy of not caring about the truth.

You cannot claim to be, or pretend to be or think you are a Christian if you aren’t interested in the truth.

Did you ever notice, how could you not, that when the left is in power they accuse the right of obstructing and being the party of “No” and when the right is in power they say the same thing about the left?

Chuck Schumer is one of the most dishonest men in politics. That is my opinion based on years of hearing this smarmy liar – lie. New York voters continue to return him to the Senate. Do they really believe the garbage he spews?  Ask the Kentucky voters who returned lying Mitch McConnell to the senate about that.

The truth is both parties are guilty of this behavior. The left is fortunate in that the media in their bias helps them while the media, in it’s bias, is aghast at the behavior of the right when they do what the left does.

The end result is that they are so busy fighting each other, lying about each other and lying to their voters in order to get re-elected, which is their primary concern, that the nation’s business is way down on their to-do list.

Another sad truth is that voters claim they hate congress when what they mean is they hate your congress critter. They will probably re-elect their own. It’s the nature of the beast. It’s the way people lie to themselves in order to vote a party line.

I don’t watch television “news”programs because most of them have become simply “opinion” programs. Even the weather has to slip in some “climate change” nonsense occasionally.

I do read a lot of newspaper websites and laugh at the rampant bias and dishonesty of most of them. Serious issues I check, recheck, double-check and check again. I have at times posted things that weren’t true. Unknowingly. If, and when, it happens again it won’t be because I didn’t seek the truth.

I make it a point to read truth-tellers like Ben Shapiro. His post today is well worth your time and deals with the issue of truth.

What If There’s No Trump-Russia Conspiracy?  

Here’s the truth: Even if every allegation surrounding Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner regarding this meeting is true, that’s still not evidence of any working relationship between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. At best, it’s evidence that Trump Jr. and Co. weren’t averse to attempts to feed them information. But as all accounts of the meeting state, no actual information was transferred, which means that there’s still no Trump-Russia collusion.

Many of those suffering from TDS, on both the left and the right, have gone so far over the edge in the rabid hate of Trump that truth and facts are no longer important to them. They squint into the distance and mutter that where there’s so much smoke there must be fire. They will, in their chronic TDS, believe it. Perhaps they will then smile sadly and murmur, if only Cruz…

Meanwhile the big news this morning is that:

Joe Scarborough is Leaving the GOP

Excuse me but isn’t the truth that he left the GOP a long time ago?

Happy Wednesday and as always, this is an…