Does Lying Matter? If So, How Much?

[Dill]

(02-05-2017, 03:22 PM)GMDino Wrote: Nice article by a conservative...seriously.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody-cares-the-president-is-lying.html?smid=fb-share&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com

[i]“There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts,” she declared. Among “a large part of the population” what Mr. Trump said was the truth.

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“When he says that millions of people illegally voted,” she said, his supporters believe him — and “people believe they have facts to back that up.”

That is a good article. Thanks for posting it. It articulates the central problem of US politics at the moment.

Though I would say it is not that there is not such thing a "facts" anymore, just that now there are "alternative facts" to give people the illusion that truth is a personal choice, and no one's truth is better than anyone else's.