“TRUTH AND THE AMERICAN WAY”.....

“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.” Mark Twain
The problem with lying, even when you’re very good at it, is that when you least expect it, it’ll sneak up on you and bite you in the butt.
I’ve found that truth is ever best, unless you’re a politician, in which case, none of the rules applay. Politicians don’t lie. They ‘mis-speak’ and adjust the facts accordingly. For the rest of us, we start out lying and learn that without the proper education, lying is very difficult. For one thing, it’s hard to keep track of all the lies you tell and sooner or later, you’re gonna get caught. And when you can’t lie your way out of whatever mess you’ve created, why you just throw yourself on the mercy of the court. And for reg’lar folk, there’s darn little mercy. It’s just easier to tell the truth. You don’t ever have to apologize for tellin’ the truth and you never have to tell another truth to cover up for the first truth you told.
You can be too blunt tho’.....You need to be careful about that. Kids often blurt out uncomfortable and embarrassing truths. By the time you’ve grown up, you’re s’pozed to have learned a modicum of diplomacy in dealing with the truth cringe.
Diplomacy is an interesting word, whatc’ha might call a ten dollar word for liar. Most people are just garden-variety liars. They generally learn to lie at home, then by the time they get to kindergarten and grade school, they learn how to do it better. Heck! that’s what schools and colleges, them institutions of higher knowledge, are for.
It ain’t an accident that the most skillful diplomats come from the most prestigious universities, where the elite meet to hone their skills. You got to hone a knife blade to make it sharp and you got to hone your skills as a liar if you want to be a leader of people. These bastions of intellectual wisdom put such a fine edge on these future leaders that the average person will never quite understand what they say. They’re diplomats.
“It’s another fine mess you’ve got us into.” Oliver Hardy