Rudy Giuliani said on TV that facts were in the eye of the beholder. Of course given his recent reversals he will probably claim he never said that or that he meant something different from the perceived sentiment but that is pretty incredible. Yes, eye witnesses to crimes often report different things, but facts are not simply mistaken testimony. Two days after the inauguration Kellyanne Conway said that Spicer presented alternative facts and the entire world laughed at the notion. Now we have become inured to lies in a way that is dangerous for our democracy and dangerous for us as individuals. If there is no objective truth then we have no need for laws of any kind from the biblical sort to our Constitution.
How do we fight back? Tell the truth. This isn't debatable. Just tell the truth.
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