And so one thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch, is that people that say facts are facts -- they're not really facts. Everybody has a way -- it's kind of like looking at ratings, or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth, or not truth. There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.Mark Sumner, in an article at Daily Kos entitled "Post-conflict of interest, post-presidential, post-fact," says:
Hughes followed up with the Trump/Peter Pan definition of the truth—if enough people clap, that makes it so."And so Mr. Trump's tweet, amongst a certain crowd -- a large part of the population -- are truth. When he says that millions of people illegally voted, he has some -- amongst him and his supporters, and people believe they have facts to back that up. Those that do not like Mr. Trump, they say that those are lies and that there are no facts to back it up."Donald Trump can literally do no wrong. If he does it, it becomes right.
Donald Trump can tell no lie. If he says it, it becomes truth.
Here's a quotation from an article by Digby at Salon entitled "The Carrier Con." She quotes an article in the Washington Post where former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said:
“This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally,” Lewandowski said. “The American people didn’t. They understood it. They understood that sometimes — when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar — you’re going to say things, and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up.”Hannah Arendt, writing in 1967: “Since the liar is free to fashion his ‘facts’ to fit the profit and pleasure, or even the mere expectations, of his audience, the chances are that he will be more persuasive than the truth teller.”
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