“We live in a post-truth world.”
I would not be at all surprised to find out that those very same words were spoken in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. I think the difference is before Germany and Russia got to the level of dishonesty that we are seeing today, that both were successful in first disarming their citizens and punished free speech.
A famous Japanese Admiral is supposedly quoted as saying that the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor Awakened A Sleeping Giant. The perpetual poking at us by the left may have a similar effect. Sooner or later all hell will break out and they will have wished they had disarmed us.
I would not be at all surprised to find out that those very same words were spoken in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
There was talk about "the Big Lie" in interwar Germany, the lie so big that it was pointless to deny it. Hitler used the phrase against his opponents, but his government was based on the Big Lie.
It's been said that the Russian language had two words for truth. One was the big truth, the larger or spiritual or ideal truth that could be manipulated by governments and propagandists. The other was the smaller, everyday factual truths that can't be denied by honest, clear-sighted people. But it's also been said that this isn't true about Russian at all.