We have just spent four years watching a living documentary of how to deliver political propaganda. It was done through gaslighting, outright lies, misleading “facts,” deflection, blame, verbal attacks, appeals to perceived prejudices, and an ocean full of fearmongering.
I cannot begin to express how much I detest political propaganda. I care about honesty and decency and empathy and service and transparency. It is one of the main reasons I am running for office, because I do not believe a single word most of my elected officials tell me, and in a free democratic republic, that is incredibly wrong. It is also incredibly dangerous to the health of our republic, and I refuse to sit back and watch men and women so concerned with the power of their party – and so blasé about their own constituents – that they would rather lie, blame, scare, cheat, and deflect than concede political defeat or compromise.
It’s time that crap ended, and I’ll call it out every time I see it.
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