Can you feel the severe eye roll? I’m doing it right now … and every day, it
seems (incidentally, I'm a firm believer that Facebook needs an eye-roll reaction right next to the "like" button--can someone over there get on that, please?). My biggest pet peeve, if you can
call it that, is dishonesty. I can’t
stand people that lie and lie consistently.
Why is it so damn hard to tell the truth? Often, I ponder why a person might lie – do they
really believe what they’re saying is true?
Are they just out there to gain sympathy or showboat a fake confidence
when inside, they house an inner crumbling personality with low self-esteem?
It’s not hard to spend a lot of time thinking about this as
of late. It’s frustrating to me to turn
on the television and see the current government administration lying out of
their teeth day in and day out, while muttering under my breath, “Jesus Fucking
Christ, do people really buy into this bullshit?”
The egregious behavior stabbing at my annoyance got me
thinking about people in history and characters in stories that had such a
power over words that they were able to get people to buy into what they were
saying, even if they didn’t emanate it or believe it themselves. Hitler is a prime example. He believed in a perfect race of tall
blue-eyed, blonde-haired people, yet he himself did not have blonde hair and
standing at 5’9 really doesn’t equate to “tall” in today’s terms. So, why did so many people buy into what he
was selling when he didn’t even fit his own description? Voldemort is another. While a fictional character, it’s the same
type of thing. He was able to gain a
huge following based on the idea that true wizards and witches were full-blood,
yet he himself was only half-blood. No
one ever called him out on that shit and I wonder why?
This brings me to the current situation we find sitting in
the White House. It’s ridiculous to me
that Trump goes to these rallies and talks about “draining the swamp” when he
in fact has put people in positions of power within the White House that meet
the very definition of the swamp. He
says he supports LGBTQ rights, but he wants to ban transgender service members
in our military based on incorrect data about medical costs associated with
hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery.
Hello, did you know the military spends more on Viagra??? Jesus, did he botch the Charlottesville
thing. It took the guy way too long to
denounce White Supremacists and Nazi hate groups and even then, he flip-flopped
on his views from one day to the next. And
the stories coming from him or the people working for him … Bowling Green massacre? General Pershing and the pig-blood
bullets? You’ve done more in six months
than any other President? Stop. Just stop already.
My point is, don’t people see these lies? Don’t they see he’s not even doing what he
says he’ll do? Don’t they see that he
doesn’t care and that he’s only out there to profit off the highest office in
the country?
While our current state of affairs is quite fascinating and
history-making, it’s also very frustrating and disheartening. I’m sad, I’m angry, I’m frustrated, I’m embarrassed,
and I hate the fact I have to listen to people that are supposed to have
integrity stand up and lie through their teeth on a daily basis meanwhile
blaming the news outlets and calling the reputable ones “fake.” Seriously?
What has our country come to that this is okay and is now an expected
modus operandi? I know someday I will
look back on this time and lament on what a wild ride it was. Right now, all I can do is just look forward
to the future where we’ll be out of this madness and in a more honest and
humble environment. I can’t lose what
little faith in humanity I have left.
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