Post Truth

We live in a post truth world.

There is no other way to explain how the man who, as evidenced clearly by multiple investigations, cut deals with America’s greatest enemy, Russia, to influence and manipulate the 2016 presidential election was not resoundingly labeled the traitor he showed himself to be. 

There is no other way to explain how the man who, as clearly shown by all available evidence, used his position as President of the United States to compel a foreign nation, newly elected Ukrainian president Zelensky, to do his bidding and influence the 2020 elections so that he would stay in power was not thrown from the office for so clearly eschewing the foundational principles of the nation. 

There is no other way to explain how a man who, as explicitly shown by all evidence and multiple investigations, incited an insurrection on this nation’s capitol aimed to overturn the certification of the election for the next President of the United States because it meant he would lose the implied legal protections of holding the highest office, was not punished for the sedition he so clearly committed.

We live in a post truth world where the President and leader of a “populist” movement can be openly bought by the rich elite and billionaires of the world to do their bidding, yet working class White Americans will bleed themselves dry to defend that he has their best interests at heart. The only way that this can be seen as true is if their best interest is purely their ability to exercise supremacy over women and minorities. 

I would like to think that if the Founders and Framers could see what has become of the democracy they risked their lives for, they would build the gallows themselves. 

The highest office in the land, the “leader of the free world”, is committing treason against the institutions and people he is sworn to protect. Instead, using his power to enrich himself and his sycophants. Did the Movement Conservatives that backed Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan foresee that their ploys to manipulate voters would lead to the dismantling of American democracy?

Every politician in congress who is too afraid to vote against these policies and enable the destruction of the constitution, and every principle this Nation stands for, is a fucking coward and an oath breaker. They willingly sacrifice the interests of their constituents, the fundamentals of democracy, in order to stay in office. An office that loses power and relevance with every step they cede to rising authoritarianism. 

And they dare to call themselves Patriots. 

When will truth matter more than being able to be racist and misogynist? When will truth matter more than doing harm to our disenfranchised fellow citizens? When will truth matter more than loyalty to a man who would happily see you die if it got him another dollar?

– The People. Of, By, and For