Truth often gets in the way of political ideology. So it makes sense to ignore it completely as PET has. Truth is what he says it is, right?

I read this only this very morning:
"In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.

Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”.

According to Oxford Dictionaries, the first time the term post-truth was used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich in the Nation magazine. Tesich, writing about the Iran-Contra scandal and the Persian Gulf war, said that “we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world”.



I think political discourse as we knew it is becoming an anachronism.

I suppose Clinton was a shining example of (Orwellian?) truth This post was edited by Malizz at November 16, 2016 5:48 AM MST