U.S. Capitol insurrection was a ‘hoax,’ Michigan Senate leader says in video

[David Horn]

(02-12-2021, 11:36 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(02-12-2021, 11:14 AM)David Horn Wrote: The Kool-Aid keeps on delivering.

'Hoax' and its brother 'fake news' are two of the go to red ways of dismissing the facts.  It seems they could be flawed if they become associated with lying.  Trump made a lot of ground telling lies.  Obama supposedly was not born in the US.  Mexico did not pay for the wall.  His attempts to advocate law and order were an attempt to not listen to the people, to suppress the anti systematic racism vote.  Whenever his lies took the front stage he would yell 'hoax' or 'fake news' to cover himself.

It seems claiming voter fraud without evidence is another example.  Leaving his violent supporters trying to justify their actions with an obviously false lie will not get him another round of supporters.

Oh, it isn't over.  This recent collision seems to be the extreme end of the southern strategy.  The establishment gets votes by attracting the racists.  The racists got people in power who would push their preferred agenda.  In the extreme, the racists exposed their most violent people in a vain attempt to delay the certification somewhat.  They do not have the numbers to face down the government, but it would be expensive to keep deploying these security forces enough to force the racists to back down out of prudence.  At least they won't have friends in high places to provide them cover.

Two points:

• Challenging the existence of objective fact is right out of the Fascist playbook.  If nothing is objectively true, then "facts" can be manufactured as needed.
  
• Having a large percentage of the population in the no-fact universe, as the Trumpists certainly are, may preclude an end to strife.