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The best definition I could find of the “Big Lie” theory was given by German politician Paul Joseph Goebbels. He said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” The first mention of the “Big Lie” came in Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf. Mein Kampf was basically the written game plan Hitler laid out for his German revolution. I am not trying to equate the Biden administration with Nazis. Not even close. I am finding their continual use of big lies troubling. For the Big Lie to be successful it is critical for the State to deny citizens the truth. In fact, it can only succeed if people are kept in the dark.

While the current administration is not the first to use the Big Lie, they are using it more frequently than others. Bush the elder promised “Read my lips, no new taxes” throughout his campaign. Then he signed into law one of the largest tax increases in history. Remember Clinton’s swearing, under oath, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” Lewinsky then produced the blue dress. Then Bush the younger talked us into going to war with Iraq because he said they had large amounts of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). At the expense of the lives of thousands of young military personnel, and hundreds of billions of dollars, we crushed the Iraqis. But never found any WMD. Then O’Bama told us that after the Affordable Care Act was passed we would be able to keep our current doctors, PERIOD! We could keep our current health plans, PERIOD! After it passed Americans found that those sentences should have ended with question marks, not exclamation points, as neither was true. I would include Trump’s claims of a rigged election except that claim is still under review. While they are all big lies, none of the above actually fit the definition of the “Big Lie”. That brings us to the current administration’s Big Lies.

I’ll look first at the most recent Biden administration’s Big Lie. Biden promised throughout his campaign, and since his inauguration, that he would not increase taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000. Now he is pushing for his $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Agenda bill. In so doing he is telling us the plan will cost zero dollars. ZERO DOLLARS? Nearly every single American, with at least an 8th grade education, knows that is a lie. Only blind Progressive ideologues, and the free press/media, defend Biden’s lie. Even though they know it is a lie. They just don’t care. They say they will only tax the rich. If the taxes levied on the richest 1% in America were raised to 100% they would NOT pay for this incredible fiasco. Taxes are going to go up for the majority of American wage earners. If this bill is passed inflation will be felt by every one of us as we will be paying more for the products we purchase every day. Inflation is known as the invisible tax and it hurts the poorest people most. They will pay for it by raising corporate income taxes they say. If corporate taxes are raised to levels suggested by the President, prices that corporations charge their customers MUST go up. As I have said in previous posts, corporations do NOT pay taxes. They collect taxes that are paid by their customers and forward them to Washington D.C. The little guy pays. Those that can’t raise prices will be forced to forgo wage increases for employees. The middle class is punished. They will also see their earnings reduced which will certainly reduce their stock prices. Stock investors, IRA, and 401(k) holders, will see their accounts go down in value. Over 50% of Americans own stock in corporations. They do so either through brokerage accounts, or retirement plans. Whether the pain comes in the form of tax hikes, a slow down in pay raises, or reduced stock prices, is secondary to the fact that this monstrosity will hurt all of us. Regardless of his promises, every American will feel the pain of Biden’s extraordinarily Socialist plan.

Since Biden has only been in office for about 10 months all of his lies are relatively recent. The second Big Lie displays how the corroboration of the State, the free press/media, can be successful in keeping the public blind to the truth. That is the calling of the January 6th demonstration an “armed insurrection.” The definition of insurrection is: A violent uprising against an authority or government. The events of 1/06/21 were unfortunate and stupid. But they fell woefully short of an insurrection. There were hundreds of law enforcement people in and around the demonstration. Yet ZERO firearms were found among the demonstrators. When’s the last time you saw, read, or heard, of an insurrection that didn’t involve deadly weapons? Members of Congress acted like terrified juveniles who had just been threatened by a vicious trigger warning. They whimpered about fearing death as the insurrectionists stormed through the People’s House. How utterly pathetic. The press/media repeatedly called the protests a deadly insurrection. They reported on the deaths of 4 people. One of the deceased was Capital Police Officer, Brian Sicknick. For months the media incorrectly reported he was bludgeoned to death by rioters wielding a fire extinguisher. They continued that reporting even after we knew it was false. You might say that was a smaller lie inside of the Big Lie. The truth is the only person who died by violence on 1/6 was Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by an officer while entering the building. To date over 650 people have been arrested for participating in the demonstration. Most of them are being charged with things like: unlawfully entering a federal building, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, entering and remaining on the floor of the Congress building. Many of those arrested have been in jail since January. How can American citizens be jailed, some of them reportedly in solitary confinement, for 10 months basically for trespassing? After 10 months of intense investigation not one of them has been charged with insurrection, or sedition. All the while members of Congress, and the press/media, are still saying the events of 1/6 were worse than the terrorist attacks on 9/11! Democrat leaders, all the way up to President Biden, continue to call the events of 1/6 an insurrection. They and the press/media continue to hang the moniker of insurrectionists and domestic terrorists on the protestors. More dangerous, they say, than the Taliban! Look, those involved in the 1/6 incident should be properly punished for their actions. They do not deserve to be tortured. The above fits the definition of the Big Lie perfectly.

While I could write pages about the Big Lies being told by this administration, I will close with this last one. We are repeatedly being lied to about the security of our southern border. President Biden, V.P. Harris, and the Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, continue to tell us they have things under control. Why are they all lying? There can only be three reasons why our southern border remains wide open. 1. The above mentioned people are delusional and actually believe it is under control. 2. They are completely feckless and simply don’t know what to do to secure the border. 3. They want it that way. It doesn’t matter which of the options is correct, and I won’t attempt to guess their motives. What is germane to this post is that they are lying. A Big Lie! We watch as tens, or hundreds, of thousands illegals come to America every month. They are processed and summarily transported to cities all over the country. Some are given court dates, which the vast majority ignore, many are just released into our communities. None of them are being sent to Martha’s Vineyard, or the like. While U.S. citizens are losing careers because they refuse vaccination, illegals aren’t even asked if they have been vaccinated, or tested for the disease! That the border is under control is a Big Lie. One of the differences in today, and the 1930s and 40s, is that everyone is carrying their own recording device in their pockets. That makes it more difficult for the government alone to hide the truth. The State can’t cover up all of the recordings. What it can do is employ social media to help them. The President understands it is illegal for the government to censor people or groups. So they ask social media to do what they can’t. They ask the purveyors of social media to remove those posts, and cancel the accounts, of people who refute the State’s narrative. They provide a list of items, and people, they want social media to “review” for “misinformation.” Thus far, social media has been more than happy to comply. Democrats can also lean on their propaganda arm, the free press/media, to avoid reporting anything that doesn’t support the State’s agenda. Or if they must report it, they are asked to do so in obscure places in their publications. It is impossible for the Big Lie to succeed without compliance from the free press/media, and social media. Thus far both have been more than happy to do their share in keeping the people ignorant. That the southern border is secure is indeed a Big Lie.

I hope you enjoyed this post. If you did please tell your friends about it. Thank you. Bob