Well said, Andrew Mitrovica — about lying US presidents

06 December 2024

Worth repeating

From Andrew Mitrovica:

[T]he overwrought brouhaha over Papa Biden’s predictable volte-face to pardon his wayward son after insisting that he would not exercise his prerogative to wave a presidential wand and erase Hunter’s criminal convictions, strikes me as missing a larger and obvious point.

Indeed, there are two defining qualities that every American president must possess in order to fulfill their duties and responsibilities.

They must be able to lie with an almost pathological ease and they must be content to order others to kill without pause or a scintilla of remorse.

Presidents lie about war. They lie about peace. They lie about negotiating “truces”.

They lie about “intelligence” produced by spy services whose business is deceit. They lie about bridging the schism between rich and poor.

They lie about protecting “innocents” at home and abroad. They lie about preventing the planet from burning into extinction.

Which raises a necessary question: Why do they lie?

They lie to convince the gullible that presidents are “peacemakers” who oppose war rather than fuel conflict with money and arms.

They lie to obscure the fact that, as president, their principal obligation is to serve the parochial interests of the few at the debilitating expense of the many.

Is a 'gullible' American public to blame?

Or is the behavioral culprit more basically founded upon our public's willful turning away from being or becoming aware?

We might ask ourselves, by way of making a potential contrast, whether most of the Russian population would put up with a president who lied to them at the rate that US presidents lie to us.

Accurately answering this question, of course, would require non-propagandized knowledge about Russia. Something that almost no Americans have. Again by willfully imposed and passively accepted design.

It is no fun, after all, to investigate facts and discover that our purported enemies are actually not. No one wants to confront the lie-originating devils within the United States.

So we, for the most part, being due diligence dullards — do not.

The moral? — One might tentatively conclude that . . .

. . . lazily unhinged America is not fit to lead anyone anywhere, ever.

Propaganda-imposed, and insouciantly accepted, mental illness feeds itself.

We don't even own our brains. Which does not speak well to the Defense of Liberty concept that underlies historically basic ideas about American democracy.

If the majority of us are too lazy and unalert to seek and hold onto actualities, what realistic hope for Freedom and Decency's advancement remains?

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Well said, Andrew Mitrovica — about lying US presidents