Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Truth is a precondition for freedom and democracy
If our entire belief system is shot through with falsehood, we're not free. If you had a pole in north korea, i suspect that five % or more of the people would vote for their leader, and that's because they've been lied to. And there's another point about truth that isn't abstract. I don't care if in his heart he's just doing it for power. That is what facius will often do. The claim that we are facing a facha social and political movement is not a claim about the temporal order in which things occur. First they arrest political opponents, then they steal elections, then they pack the courts. It does tell you that a bunch
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