This might be hard, because along with my very, very low carb diet, I’ve vowed to wean myself off of using his name.  Anyway, here goes.

I’ve been reading a lot about truth and lies lately.  A few months ago, the “Ethicist”, in The NY Times, began a discussion on when, if ever, lying might actually be more appropriate than telling the truth.  Examples were given, like whether it’s cruel to be straight with a recovering, injured child who is the sole surviving member of an otherwise fatal family accident and similar scenarios where truthfulness could be questioned.  The assumption was that everyone lies and that our moral compasses are individually calibrated to guide our veracity.  We, therefore, have very different tolerances with regard to the right and wrong of when and how much stretching reality is acceptable.  It’s an unusual trait of human nature that, for most of us, playing fast and loose with the truth and then denying that looseness to others as well as ourselves, is a go-to, inbred mechanism.  The extreme, sociopathic behavior, long demonized as sinful by religious dogma and virtuously bankrupt by secular society, has somehow found an unlikely, polarizing champion, whose mentor was Roy Cohn, one of the most infamous and venal liars in American history.  He has lived his entire adult life outside of the guidelines of truth and fairness, using the vagaries of legal statute to manipulate the system and take advantage of others solely for personal gain.  His “autobiography”, (that’s how you do sarcasm, by the way), was ghostwritten and…untrue.  He is, in almost every aspect of his life, a fraud and yet, beyond any reason, a nominee for President of the United States of America who hour-by-hour tweets lies about himself, his issue du jour, then lies about the lies he was lying about.  His only interests are self-aggrandizing with no regard for working people, immigrants of any origin or the alluded to Constitution which he has neither read nor could he understand.  You don’t have to be college educated to get this.  You just have to pay attention…for about five minutes.