I’ve officially began binging the tv series “The X-Files,” something I do every four year during a presidential election to avoid, um, everything to do with a presidential election. Tonight, it struck me that the show’s tagline was “The truth is out there.”
Huh. The good ol’ days when the truth was something we’ve actively sought.
Nowadays, not so much.
It amazes and befuddles me how little truth is sought in America. Actually, the last thing we want is to find truth. We spend more time trying to quash or hide truth. Preferred outcomes is what we seek. And this is dangerous.
I am starting to feel a little seasick from being whipped about from the continual rewriting of truth before our very eyes.
In this election, I see one candidate planning her election through avoidance and outright deception. For three years, this candidate served as the “border czar,” acknowledged by widely by the press until she wasn’t. 20 million illegal border crossings later, including several on the terrorist watch list, this term was an utter failure. Now, before our very eyes, she was merely assigned to “look for root causes to illegal immigration,” which is absolutely not true (there is video). For the last couple of weeks, the media has completely run cover for her. Now, today, she is running ads in Arizona saying how successful she was at cracking down on border crossings.
Then, suddenly, out of the blue, she promised no taxes on tips, and the press had a collective orgasm over her compassion. Trump made that promise weeks ago. Well, they nuance, these are different scenarios. No. Not true at all. It’s the narrative that matters.
Further, this candidate’s primary strategy seems to hiding from the press. JD Vance on Sunday did three hostile interviews, but Harris is promising an interview “by the end of the month.” (She hasn’t had one in the four weeks she became the nominee.
I’m sorry, I thought elections were about debating policy, not deceiving or hiding truth. I get the feeling her strategy is just not to say something stupid in the next three months.
I have seen too many interviews this week asking Harris supporters what she might bring to the White House. Their response: “She brings good vibes.” Never mind that six weeks ago, Harris was the most unpopular vice president in recent history. Now she’s the one for the job.
God help us.
The X-Files tagline is correct: the truth is out there. But we no longer seek it. We merely seek preferred outcomes, and truth be damned.
We’re absolutely being lied to. But the problem is: it working. Running from truth is a successful strategy. America is completely and willingly falling for it.
Our nation cannot sustain itself without seeking truth. We are running hell-bent toward the cliff. And I am deeply afraid that as a nation America will not stop.
Pending a sudden change of direction, or a merciful act by God, we’re going over that cliff. No matter who wins in November, we are going to come crashing down. And it won’t be pretty.
All because we refuse to seek truth. We only have ourselves to blame.
For now, I will continue watching The X-Files, relishing in the irony that the search for truth is being done more honestly in fiction than in the media.
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