Memo To The Media: Stop The False Equivalency!

"As Americans gear up for the election, Bill Adair warns of an 'epidemic of lying' in U.S. politics -- particularly within the Republican Party. Adair joins the show to discuss his new book "Beyond the Lie." As founder of the fact-checking website PolitiFact, Adair is well placed to account for where disinformation comes from, how it spreads, and the danger it poses to democracy."

Click on the link below for the effects of accepting the lies of the Republicans/MAGA/Trump:

PolitiFact Founder Explains the “Epidemic of Lying” in American Politics

Definitions All Voters Need To Know

ANTI-SCIENCE: a set or system of attitudes and beliefs that are opposed to or reject science and scientific methods and principles (link)

AUTOCRACY: government in which one person possesses unlimited power (link)

CORRUPT: to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions (link)

CULT: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (link)

EVIL: morally bad, cruel, or very unpleasant (link)

FASCISM: a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government (link)

GASLIGHTING: manipulating someone into believing things that are not true (link)

LYING: deliberately untruthful; deceitful; false (link)

GULLIBLE: easily deceived or cheated (link)

RACIST: someone who believes that their race makes them better, more intelligent, more moral, etc. than people of other races and who does or says unfair or harmful things as a result (link)

SYCOPHANT: a person who tries to win favor from wealthy or influential people by flattering them; also known as brown-nosers, teacher's pets, or suck-ups (link)

THEOCRACY: government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided (link)
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IF YOU VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN THE US 2024 ELECTION, THE ABOVE IS WHAT YOU ARE AND/OR WHAT YOU WILL BE GETTING.

Lying: Essentially the ONLY Tool Of The Republican Party

Lie: 

(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

There is NO equivalency between the two major US political parties and their promoters and supporters regarding communication of truth:

• Trump's false or misleading claims totaled 30,573 over 4 years (link)
• Telling lies has become the norm for today's Republican Party (link)
• Lies, conspiracy theories, and the Republican Party (link)
• 27 Donald Trump election lies listed in his Georgia indictment (link)
• The modern GOP is built on lies (link)
• Fact-checkers find that Republicans lie up to 3 times more than Democrats (link)
• Fact-checkers are shown to be unbiased in their findings (link)(link)(link)
• The recent Republican debate was full of lies and misleading statements (link)
• The US Constitution is clear about the separation of religion and government but Republicans lie about such and attempt to force harmful and false religious dogma into our secular laws (link)
• In general, Republicans reject the findings of science if such interfere with their unsupported ideology.

A Simple Way To Tell If Someone Is Lying?

"To spot a liar, ignore everything except the level of detail in a person's story, new research suggests.

"If a person provides rich descriptions of who, what, when, how, and why, it's likely they are telling the truth. If they skim over these details, they are probably lying.

"Using this very simple test and nothing else, people can separate truth from lies with nearly 80 percent accuracy, researchers from the University of Amsterdam have found."

Click on the link below for more. Call me a skeptic. *One study does not maketh a scientific truth. Replication, please, and then we can talk about this.

*9 Studies, but essentially trials using the same method and participant (students) criteria.

This One Strategy Will Reveal if Someone's Lying With 80% Accuracy, Study Finds