The democrats have been excellent liars in the past, but I
have never seen them lie to the point of utter absurdity,
everyone knowing they are not even close to the truth.
And that’s across the board, not on just one topic or even
a few. They lie about everything.
βIt appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday [β¦] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?β
β Orwell George, 1984