“A big lie,” according to Wikipedia, “is a propaganda technique used for political purpose. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so ‘colossal’ that no one would believe that someone ‘could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.’”
No primary source has been cited for the oft-repeated quotation attributed to Joseph Goebbels: “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 in the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Truth IS the mortal enemy of The Lie. Only the Truth will set us free. Among the current big lies is that the recent presidential election was stolen from Donald J. Trump. The evidence says otherwise. Every challenge has been put down. THE TRUTH IS THAT JOE BIDEN IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT, elected by the people, accepted by the Electoral College and certified on January 6, 2021 by Congress in accordance with the Constitution.
How is it, then, that some congressional Republicans refused to certify the provable, evidence-based truth of the election on January 6th? How could anyone "have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously?
Other Big Lies are rampant, spawned by conspiracy theories and reiterated by the president and his supporters. The Muller investigation was not a hoax. Covid-19 is not a hoax. There is no cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibalistic pedophiles running a global sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Donald Trump. All of these lies have been disproven, discredited, and rejected. Why then do so many continue to lie? How can anyone “have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously?”
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