Leo
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Is it really such a paradigm shift though? It's not like we really believe that every other politician tells the truth? It's his disdain for keeping up the pretence that's the problem right?
Echoing vimothy's recent thoughts, isn't he just disrespecting institutions that aren't really considered worthy of respect by many liberals anyway?
trump said that line in "the art of the deal", published in 1987, so i guess that makes him a long-time con man.
i get what you're saying (and know how the real world works) but also refuse to give in and say "ah, fuck it, everyone else is lying, i give up, truth no longer matters." call me naive but morals are morals, people either have them or they don't. if people don't, then they can try to justify why they don't need them anymore but those people are still amoral, and that still matters. is knowingly lying now simply viewed as "just disrespecting institutions"? and who's to judge which ones "aren't really worthy of respect" anymore?