Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
The purpose of lying is multifaceted but a LARGE part of it is to demoralize people.
Orange Hair and the Clown both smirked all-day-every-day feeding lie after lie to the WH Press Corps.
Politicians get this weird smirk and $#!T eating grin on their faces while lying. Like the pathologic ris sardonicus of tetanus patients, some politicians have this smirk on their mugs perpetually. It is a real red flag for me when anyone sports one.
The rats know that they are sending code to their followers "We overpower them on this, HA!" and they are downright joyful in their lies.
Notice the war on comedians and humor you see nowadays and always in communist countries.
Humor is a way of both pointing out truth in a sort of parable form that sticks with the listener. AND it is, when people are laughing and silly, a way of overclocking the brain to get them to think around obstacles and figure problems out quickly in real time.
It is very powerful medicine against lies.