We hold these truths to be self-evident......or do we?
Jim Carrey made a movie called, “Liar, liar”....wherein his son made a wish that his father wouldn’t be able to tell a lie for a whole day....cute movie but it made me think that if they ever passed a law to put truth into politics, that’d be the end of politics.....
Truth be told (satiric ha ha) we are a devious species...we dissemble as a matter of course ‘n the best dissemblers among us get to be our leaders.
You’d think it ought’a be the toughest or the cruelest ‘n generally speakin’ it is but mostly it’s the best liar that comes out on top in the eternal struggle to be first in line...
We have great universities that strive mightily to produce large numbers of liars annually. The best of these, the shining examples so t’speak, go into ‘public service’....politics ‘n diplomacy mostly, but since we are a nation of law, by far most of them end up in our courts... In our system of justice where the law of natural selection holds precedent, meaning that the best ‘n the brightest never see the inside of a courtroom... Rather, they make the laws...They write the rules...(sounds like a Barry Manilow song, don’t it) that the rest of us must live by. The Supremes! Long live the old farts....
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