“The Big Lie,” and Why Some Believe It Today

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

For more than 10 years, I have been telling you that Trump was a huge fan of Adolf Hitler. Before going to sleep, he read his Fuhrer’s speeches over and over again. It is also fair to assume that he read “Mein Kampf” as well.

Anyone with common sense is aware that if Trump’s lips are moving, he’s lying. However, some of his lies are laughable and others are extremely destructive.

His lie about the 2020 election is not only the most infamous lie he ever told, but it also remains responsible for the great divide among our nation’s people. However, Trump did not create this lie. He learned it from Mein Kampf, Hitler’s own fascist manifesto.

FROM HITLER TO TRUMP WITH HATE

Hitler was a master manipulator. He knew one important fact about the average person. He was aware that if he was to be an all-powerful dictator, the people would need to believe that everything he said was fact and anything which opposed his ideas and beliefs was actually misleading and false.

His lies were designed to be so outrageous and improbable that anyone listening to his rants would find them so colossal, that no one would have had the audacity to say such things if they were not based in fact. He was also aware that if the same lie was repeated frequently, it would eventually become something Trump calls “alternative facts.”

It was also Hitler who convinced his followers that the only true source of information came from him and his people. Everything else was “fake news.”

MOST HUMANS NEED A LEADER

Contrary to the beliefs of most humans, independent thinking is not a common aspect in our society. We see it in our daily lives every day.

If you are a member of an organized religion, you need to hear the words spoken by a priest, rabbi, Imam, minister, or whatever the man or woman standing behind the pulpit calls him or herself.

If you belong to a political party, you depend on the men and women you vote for to support and work for your needs, wishes, and beliefs. You freely offer them your trust and respect.

The truth is, if you are a “joiner,” belonging to any group which supports a single cause, you are part of a collective whose members share most of the same thoughts about multiple subjects.

THINGS TRUMP SUPPORTERS BELIEVE WHICH ARE THE PRODUCT OF LIES AND MISDIRECTION

Trump’s most ardent supporters continue to believe “the big lie,” although every appeal submitted to at least 60 state courts, and Trump’s stacked Supreme Court was dismissed based on lack of evidence.

Although Trump knows nothing about economics, having lost fortunes multiple times, his cult finds a way to believe that their quality of life will be improved with Trump as their leader.

We know that his three primary promises during the 2024 campaign, ending inflation on day one, ending the invasion of Ukraine on day one, and a guarantee that there would be no more wars on foreign soil when he was president were all lies, his believers find excuses for his failures.

NO ONE CAN BE ‘TOO INDEPENDENT’

I am a patriot, loyal to the country of my birth. My feelings came to me when I was quite young.

My first impressions about what it means to be an “American” came from my first day in elementary school. Think about the words in the Pledge of Allegiance and what it meant on my first day in elementary school. Think about the words and you will understand.

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The words “under God,” were added in 1954.

The last seven words remain important to me at the age of 80.

I think it was in the seventh grade when we began to study the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, primarily the Bill of Rights.

I will never tire of reading the first line of the second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Freedom and equality are and must be synonymous.

Finally, the First Amendment and its promise of protecting human rights, individuality, and independent thoughts and beliefs, gave me a sense of pride, which I cherish today. First Amendment text.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Sadly, the words in all three of these admirable and esteemed documents are under attack today. Racism is growing rapidly. Only the super-rich experience the true meaning of being an American. Even our right to vote in free and fair elections is under attack.

Don’t be fooled by the Antichrist: the Big Lie, like everything else coming from the right-wide of the aisle is completely false. Facts prove that voter fraud in America is between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. And voting by mail is far more secure than using a machine at your polling location.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Source: wwikipedia.org: Big lie

brennancenter.org. Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth