Republicans are openly proud of their lies — but our disdain for the truth is bipartisan

Nobody’s making it easy for anyone these days.

Let’s start with Donald Trump. The former president still won’t accept he lost the 2020 election, he lies about immigrants eating pets and continues his baseless claims that women are carrying fetuses full term – only to kill them after they are born. He's also an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon, but that’s another story.

The rampant stupidity and numb ignorance from him is frightening. But Trump is just the vanguard for political hatred and violence.

No one is making it easy for anyone these days. Donald Trump is merely the worst offender among the worst of us.

Consider this: Israel has a right to defend itself. Innocent Jews and Palestinians have a right to live their lives without threats. Both are still dying in the Middle East as Israel blows up pagers. Gun violence is unacceptable, but we don’t want to regulate automatic weapons. Politics is about ideas and ideals, but only if we “like” the politician. War is unacceptable, but we accept it. We want criminals to serve time – unless they’re running for president.

We are a country, and a world, chasing its tail – vacillating between hatred, anger and a desire for peace. Many of us seem incapable of understanding critical or rational thought. We just point our finger at those we disagree with and call them foul names - or worse.

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Good news? Well, the Federal Reserve tried to deliver some Wednesday by lowering its prime interest rate by .5 percent, but Trump screamed foul. His minions claimed they were victims. They also screamed “It’s all the Democrats’ fault,” as well as, “We’re going to Hell,” we’re a nation in decline, and if you’re not frightened by now, then by the way, World War III. Trump really doesn’t want to make it easy.

It’s a withering attack and a continuing one on rationality and the nation’s well-being, where there’s a guard on every door and a drink on every floor (apologies to Tom Petty.)

How can this continue, some ask?

Good question. I’m still trying to come to grips with the fact that thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies blew up simultaneously in Lebanon killing and injuring hundreds of people. The targets were apparently Hezbollah operatives targeted by the Israeli government, we’re told. Casualties included children. It was an act of blatant terrorism - and apparently taken by a sovereign nation. Who knew it could even be done? Who thought it up? How insidious is it? It’s like a scene out of a James Bond movie, or "The Kingsmen." It’s real comic book crap.

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