Dear Fred,
To help clarify the morning news, consider my correspondence with friend Adaire whose Facebook page is nearly as vital as your own.
Adaire: Perceptions of truth vary.
What is truth to me may be different from your truth.
The best I can do is be educated in ways other than Facebook debates and opinions.
Don't be too quick to discount what another person feels.
You can be a wordsmith to get your point across, you can be emotional about it, you can be self-righteous or sanctimonious about it, you can think you know more than everyone else because you just read some article or studied that subject in college somewhere, you can just simply state what you believe to be real in any situation but the real truth of the matter is....it is all just an opinion unless you are administrating the situation, living the situation, working in the situation, or representing the situation live.
My truth is there is a real mess out there.
Remember in November.
Alan: Yes, perceptions of truth vary.
But alternative facts, whole-cloth lies, and wholesale attacks on the press (because it's imperfect) are assaults on the criteria-of-truth, assaults that democratic process cannot withstand.
http://bamboozlethedimwits.blogspot.com/2018/06/truth-lies-and-survival-of-democracy.html
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