Alternate realiity

Tom Sullivan titles this blog postMinistry of Lies,  which is somewhat doofy since Orwell ' s point is that the so-called Ministry of Truth is actually the Ministry of Lies, but the substance is entirely correct. We have entered a political reality in which the issues are not configured around competing interest groups, values, or policy analyses, but around the fundamental nature of reality. One political party constructs an entire universe out of lies, while the other struggles to convince the news media to distinguish between truth and fantasy. Sullivan quotes Greg Sargent:[T]he whole point of all the lying is to assert the power to manufacture an alternate story in the face of easily demonstrable facts and outraged condemnation — and, importantly, to assert that power unabashedly and defiantly.I can ’t prove this is what’s driving the response. But prominent right-wing personalities have blithely asserted that the media is spreading misinformation about the attack [on Paul Pelosi], trumped up absurd “false flag” theories about it, spewed truly vicious mockery and even turned the hammer into an online meme.Watching all those figures, it ’s hard not to conclude that the key act here is a political faction unshackling itself from even the most minimal standards of public conduct. The louder the shaming and the fact-checking get, the greater the assertion of power in defiance of them becomes. Precisely. I...
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