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Let’s Try Democracy, July 26, 2021
July 27, 2021
“There’s no growing threat or shrinking threat or threat of any sort from anywhere on earth to the US military.” — David Swanson
RTQuestionMore on Jul 26, 2021
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This is admittedly a rather minor technicality, but the lies are not “hypocrisy” if the liars believe them. Which I suspect they do. It’s part of the “doublethink” that Orwell described in “1984.” To be a properly functioning member of the Party Bureaucracy, you have to believe the lies, even while you know they are lies. It’s a little like what Upton Sinclair said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”