What if EVERYONE is lying?

Among the stories I don’t believe:

The prez doesn’t know about Hunter’s business deals;

It’s OK to let a Chinese spy balloon flit across America;

It’s better to buy dirty oil from dictators than to be clean energy independent;

Exchanging a basketball player for the Merchant of Death was in America’s best interest. Too bad the dead can’t speak.

Ukraine is going to win;

The $1.2T Inflation Reduction Act was about reducing inflation;

America isn’t careening toward a nuclear exchange.

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I don’t believe any of the above, nor do I believe any apologia for them are true. 

We elect mayors, DAs and school boards to do necessary jobs that we aren’t trained to do. The problem is, they aren’t trained to do them, either. There are no mayor schools, for instance. Racist, I suppose.

So they wing it. MSU — make stuff up. Or, someone behind the scenes tells them what to do and they do it in exchange for more money or power, then they lie about what they did.

There are precedents. Joseph Goebbels is notorious but we’ve had our own in America and elsewhere. Woodrow Wilson and Neville Chamberlain come to mind. Angry and incompetent wastes of air.

Then what should we do? Read as much as you can and read diverse sources. Be informed. Watch as much TV news as you can stomach but watch at least two different biases. If you watch MSNBC for an hour, give Fox News Channel an hour, or alternate daily.

If there is a national cataclysm - a nuclear exchange, say - at least we’ll have had time to save our children. Some of us, anyway. And time to vote for those who represent our point of view in hopes that they will change things and avoid the cataclysm.

What stories do you not believe?