My Conservative friend, Craig, frequently forwards emails to me that are meant to rally people to the Conservative cause. An alarming number of them are bald faced lies! Take the one I got today for example. It's headline read: VERY QUIETLY OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP REACHES THE SUPREME COURT.
This email made claims that seemed to prove that President Barak Obama was not a natural born citizen of the United States and therefore, does not qualify to be President of the United States. It claims to have proof and claims a suit to that effect has reached the Supreme Court. My research shows that these allegations and supposed events are pure fabrication meant to inflame and divide.
I don't receive forwards from any Liberal friends, so I cannot judge if this dishonest practice is taking place among them as well, but if I were a betting man, I'd put money on it's likelihood.
This dishonest, divisive, egregious practice has soured my stomach. Who can actually suppose that lies will actually advance their position. One such email included a threatening in quote from the Koran in an effort to stir anti-Islamic sentiment. I looked it up in my own copy of the Koran and found it to be complete fiction, no such verse existed. I think whoever invented that lie is indeed an infidel. Who could blame a Muslim for despising him and his dishonesty. Who could blame me for despising him too! He is an enemy to all of us. By his action, and my discovery of its prevarication, he placed me on the side of the Muslim and in opposition to him. The dishonest, Conservative does the same thing. To maintain my personal integrity, I must stand with the Liberals and oppose him.
Would that he were just a lone fool with tin foil on his head, living by himself in an attic somewhere. But, alas I fear he is not. He is legion and inspired by the devil. He's spreading lies, hate and discontent in every issue. Recently, The Deseret News had a whole feature designed to get to the bottom of all the allegations regarding the Illegal Immigration issues. It was utterly sickening to discover that most of the negatively slanted accusations against illegal immigrants were grossly distorted and meant to mislead and enrage us.
With the internet, he has become almost impossible to find, stop, or punish for his deceit. But he is only half of the problem. P. T. Barnum once said, "There's a sucker born every minute." I'm beginning to think the ring master grossly underestimated that figure. The wide spread gullibility of the American population scares me to death! More and more, we'll believe anything. And we're being taken for ride by conspiring con-men who are hell bent on destroying us. He's in every camp, on both sides of every issue and if we sucker for his lies, we'll all go down in flames.
Propaganda used to be a dirty word attributed to the Soviet Communists. Make no mistake, propaganda is alive and well in America today. It's time we woke up, cultivated a bit of skepticism and directed it not at the Conservatives, or Liberals, or Muslims, or Illegal Aliens, or Democrats or Republicans but at the liars. It's time for zero tolerance for dishonesty. The calculated lie is the foremost cause of the polarization of America today and it must be stopped. So come on Americans, all of you, even you Craig; united we stand, divided we fall.
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