Who Needs One Big Lie When Everything Is A Lie?

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KeninNY at Down with Tyranny on having an entire political movement divorced from reality:

... the Modern Right-Wing Republican-slash-Conservative Movement now conisders that it has blanket permission to lie.

This is something I've been saying since the thick of the presidential campaign, when I was transfixed by astonishment that with maybe an exception here and there every single word out of every single Republican-slash-Conservative was a flat-out, bare-faced, unmitigated lie. And since there were no referees to say, "Sorry, you've got to take a timeout for flat-out, bare-faced, unmitigated lying," the result was that it's now officially okay. We are now officially off the reality standard.

I've been saying this at intervals ever since, and nobody bats an eyelash, which I take to mean that either it's obvious to everyone else or people just aren't grasping what I'm saying. Maybe it will help if I try to make clear what I'm not saying.

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What I'm saying is that the Right has become so far unmoored from reality that (a) it no longer feels any obligation, or even the slightest tug, in the direction of any piece of data that interferes with its ideological fantasy, not to mention its daily talking points, and (b) society gives every indication of having accepted this state of affairs. So they're not necessarily more dishonest than Nixon (how would you go about being more dishonest than Nixon?); they're just freed from the shackles of having to pretend otherwise.

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Ignoring the lies is no longer an option. Identifying the lies once, or twice or even a dozen times is no longer sufficient. It is now necessary to spend significant time, effort and money on constant, repeated, non-stop calling out the motherfucking liars for fucking their mothers.