George Rebane
Hoover Institution senior fellow and national commentator Shelby Steele has coined an appropriate tongue-in-cheek label for the gigantic lies that issue daily from our Left. It turns out that such lies may be viewed as “poetic truths” when broadcast by politicians and political activists. Poetic truths are “narratives that play down or disregard reality and facts to advance a favored ideological position.” The current claimant of the most audacious poetic truth is Ms Nusrat Choudhury (pictured), whose statement that “the killing of unarmed black men by police happens every day in America” patently qualifies (emphasis mine and Sen Kennedy’s).
She maintained the correctness of this statement to Sen John Kennedy who questioned her during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that revealed her (lack of) qualifications to become a federal judge pursuant to having been nominated by the nation’s First Incompetent, President Bumblebrain himself. (more here)
When the dissemination of prime-time, first-rate whoppers comes up for discussion, our leftwing neighbors, both national and local, volubly maintain that both sides are at least equally guilty, with the Republicans dispensing the majority. By any comparative listing of such poetic truths (aka Big Lies), the contest is not even close, nor has it ever been. Historically socialists are the big liars, for that is the requirement for their public square bamboozles to gain any traction in governance. Today’s examples overwhelm –
‘Our southern border is secure, there is no border crisis’,
‘Crime rates are not up, there is no urban crime wave in America’,
‘Increasing taxes will not exacerbate the ongoing stagflation’,
‘Increasing taxes will grow the economy’,
‘Tax rates do not affect investment and productivity’,
‘You can keep your doctor …’,
‘Obamacare will reduce national healthcare costs’,
‘Fossil fuels are bad and unnecessary; our energy needs can be met entirely by renewables’,
‘America is better off being energy-dependent on foreign suppliers,’
‘Illegal immigration and illegal aliens in the workforce are necessary for economic growth’,
‘Capitalism and minimally regulated markets are arbitrary, cruel, and don’t work’,
‘Men and women are exactly the same, making sexual distinction racist and unnecessary’,
‘Christians are intolerant’,
‘Trump’s collusion with the Russians swung the 2016 election’,
‘The tenets of Critical Race Theory are not taught in our K-12 schools’,
‘Merit based education (especially in STEM subjects) is racist’,
‘Western culture is intrinsically racist’,
‘America is a systemically racist country’,
‘Blacks don’t overwhelmingly kill blacks, cops gratuitously kill blacks,’
‘Government enforced equity motivates better than equal opportunity,’
‘Multi-cultural factionalism serves to unite America,’
… and on and on.
[10may22 update] Poetic truths also come in the complimentary form of the sound of silence. The evil party again demonstrated its true colors when both the administration and Democratic congressional leaders chose to remain silent on the historical travesty of compromising SCOTUS deliberations by leaking a draft of the forthcoming ruling on the continued federal involvement on abortions. The leak, if allowed to become a precedent so prevalent in other governmental branches, departments, agencies, … will completely politicize the last vestige of non-political functions of our federal government. The Democrats quickly doubled down on their ‘ascent by silence’ with a chorus of Big Lies about the impact of the upcoming Roe v Wade ruling that would range all the way from summarily prohibiting abortions in the land, to banning every other social activity that today we are free to perform – e.g. gay marriage. The poetic truths Democrats perpetrate on the poor and the poorly informed knows no end.
As always, Democrats are invited to counter.
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