Once upon a time, even when political figures lied, few would suggest or assert it as such. The claim would be that they were mistaken or misinformed or that th

Once upon a time, even when political figures lied, few would suggest or assert it as such. The claim would be that they were mistaken or misinformed or that they were misquoted or that we simply did not hear what we thought we heard. To some extent, this generous interpretation and public deference would/could be applied to things like: * Trump's "fine people" comment * Trudeau's "Fuddle Duddle" remark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuddle_duddle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuddle_duddle) or even * Rich Lowry and Fox's defense of his "combining" the words "migrants" and "immigrants" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Lowry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Lowry) However, the steady stream of outright fabrications/lies that now proliferate and saturate our political landscape has forced us to confront the reality that some (many?) elites just flat out lie and that many influencers know the lies and propagate them willingly. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox_News_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...) 10 years ago, it would have been unthinkable for the press to say a politician "lied", however the avalanche of false statements, doubled and tripled down on even in the face of objective reality now forces us to confront and I argue accept the assertion that we do in fact live in a "post-truth" world. I don't want to or intend to signal out one party or world view (Trudeau was a Liberal icon), but here is JD Vance in his owns words explaining how the end justifies the means. "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/nx-s1-5113140/vance-false-claims-haitian-migrants-pets https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/nx-s1-5113140/vance-false-cla... So lies by politicians are now so normalized that some, when confronted with the truth, don't even bother to cover them.