Enduring Trump's Future Lies

ONE CAN REST ASSURED that when Trump is talking, he's lying. For him to give a speech in primetime on national television is alarming and maybe foreboding. If he tries to start doing that often, which we must hope the networks would not allow, then his fascism will only intensify and, heaven forbid, gain popularity. It might be worth it to google the question "How many lies did Trump tell during his speech last night?" He told two for sure, whoppers both. he said that the economy is doing well, and that all the boats we Americans have bombed and sunk under his leadership were indeed carrying loads of cocaine, enough to cause millions of American deaths, and needed sinking. Close to fifty thousand Americans die every year from Fentanyl overdoeses, not millions. Grossly inflating these numbers, a typical Trump tactic, is an extremely fascistic technique which only increases the epidemic of misinformation afflicitng our capacity for reasoned decision making. That is, of course, precisely what Trummp's agenda requires to maintain even a remote chance of being fully implemented. The best antidote to our current case of "Trump's Disease" is a well educated, well informed electorate, which, arguably, these United States are not even close to possessing, and never have been. His assessment of the health of the American economy would have been hilarious in its imaginative dishonesty, were it not for the tragedy of our economic reality, and its tragic impact on us very real people. In Trump's great American fun house unemployment is nearly nonexistant, wages and salaries for workers are increasing, and inflation is a thing of the remote pre Trump past. He inherited a mess of an economy,and is diligently going about the business of repairng the horrible damage done by Biden. Quite the opposite is true, of course. Biden steered the economy onto a prosperous path with his policies, Trump inherited the benefits of a sound economy, and began promptly and has proceeded unhesitatingly to destroy it. The verifiable, demonstrated difference between Trump's description of matters and reality would be humorous were it not so serious, harmful, and very real. The reality is that the economic health of the nation is not good, and getting worse, fast, through sheer neglect. The job creation and loss statistics kept by the government, Trump's government, reveal an entirely different, far less desirable situation. It almost seems strange that we the people are seemingly making such a fuss about inflation. Those of a certain age can recall the early 1970s,when inflation rates of ten percent and more lingered for years, rates which by today;s standards would seem utterly out of control today. But in today's economy our comparitively low inflation rate is driving us close to and over the edge, because we live closer to the edge than ever. For this reason Trump'slies are deadlier and less tolerable each passing day. We must be told the truth so we can respond by taking well informed, well reasoned measures to reverse our declining course. Fact checkers and outspoken Trump opponents are beginning to do a better job of calling out Trump's constant lies. Since Trump, in obvious mental and physical decline, can only be expected to lie ever more steadily and egregiously, our national truth detectors must likewise turn up the level of intensity. Enduring and exposing Trump's innumerable future lies will require dogged persistance. The next three years will be an endurance contest, between two powerful forces: Trump's constant lies, and the American capacity for surviving them.