It can be difficult, nowadays, to remember that there was once a time when Republicans weren’t malicious ignoramuses.<\/p>\n
\nFar-Right Smear Merchants Try to Slime
Pete Buttigieg with Bogus Sex Assault Claim<\/a><\/p>\nA pair of right-wing provocateurs are being accused of attempting to recruit young Republican men to level false allegations of sexual assault against Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.<\/p>\n
The details of the operatives\u2019 attempt emerged as one man suddenly surfaced with a vague and uncorroborated allegation that Buttigieg had assaulted him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Donald Trump will probably tweet an allusion to this in a few days, and if he does the lie will then be eternal. Debunking will fail; “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” the gullible will tell each other.<\/p>\n
I do not exaggerate. I have met people who still repeat the World War II-era lie that we were sucked into the war by Jewish manipulations, because Roosevelt<\/i> was a corruption of Franklin Roosevelt’s true<\/i> name: Rosenfeldt<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Nor is there any reasoning with the fools who fall for these lies, because the lies are merely modern myth-making and they serve the same purpose — they make the world comprehensible to idiots steeped in malice for a world they can’t belong to or, even, understand. So they create for themselves an alternate reality that demonizes others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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