The Big Lie

The biggest lie is always the one that is told by people who know it is false.  I have told the big lie once that I can remember.  A man driving on a country road in England missed his turn glanced off a tree and smashed into an old stone fence, stopping his forward motion quickly.  His body went on and impacted on the steering wheel column which went through his chest.  Several people came from out of nowhere to try to help him until the ambulance could get there, but there was almost nothing anyone could do.  He wanted someone to help him die, but I told him that would not be a good idea because he would be OK once they cut that off and took him to the hospital where they would have the equipment to save him.  It took me weeks to get over telling him something even he knew was not true.

Now we have people who tell the Big Lie to get attention and to collect allies in causes.  The latest of those is the Muslim Ban, which of course is not a Muslim ban and everyone who says it should know that it isn't.  Only one country in the top ten Muslim countries of the world was included in the restrictions placed on visas that President Trump signed.  That restriction did not mention religion, but Iran knows what religion it is and wants to say that it is a Muslim Ban.  A handful of Democrats want to say the same thing.  This is repeating a lie, knowing it is a lie.

Now, some people say this is just a matter of interpretation and what the President really meant was to ban Muslims.  This is harder to sell, because there are not many facts to support it.  Even those people find that hard to believe when they say it, although the fact of their disbelief does not stop them from repeating the Big Lie.  It is after all the "greater good" that it being satisfied by telling it.

The greater good is always something that a group of people want that the majority has yet to seize upon and asked for.  These groups are doing a public service by appealing to an idea which has yet to crystallize in the minds of a larger group.  They are just helping out the masses of people who are basically naive and can't come to these kinds of ideas on their own.  They are leaders, helpers of the innocent, and public servants.

I'm astounded by the amount of faked outrage being levied by such founders of democracy as out own governor here in Virginia.  He repeats the Big Lie if he can get enough people together and he isn't even running for office again ever, thank God.  This is the ultimate in hypocrisy.  A man with no reason to lie - nothing to gain - who lies anyway.