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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Victor Davis Hanson argues that the entire Obama Administration and the American government has reached this point and that it foretells major trouble for the United States. I fear that he is right watching the recent Congressional testimony of Administration officials and the heads of the IRS, NSA, EPA and others.
Americans have always been rightly skeptical about politicians but the resigned cynicism that marked the former USSR is rapidly gaining a foothold here because people believe that the government lies at will over everything. As Hanson points out, trust in such a system disappears and it becomes everyone for themselves. Another famous quote reminds us that a house divided cannot stand. Also true. It took the USSR 70 years to fall, but Americans always do things faster.
It will take a revolution throwing out the lot of politicians and going back to the basics of the Founders to prevent this. Jefferson said a little revolution every now and then is healthy. Every day we wait, it becomes harder and harder.
townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2013/06/20/when-untruth-undermines-democracy-n1622774
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