Telling the truth doesn’t work in this country anymore. If you want to get elected, you need to pee on people’s legs and tell them it’s raining.
“Telling the truth doesn’t work in this country anymore….”
That’s a very interesting statement.
I think the reality is, that the country has become so divided that there are no longer “shared truths” that are accepted by both sides.
Indeed, many of the “truths” that our side accepts as “givens”, are denied and denigrated by the other side. The concept of “marriage” for one — two sides, diametrically opposed, with no reconciliation possible because either side believes in an entirely different “set of truths”.
So.. to get back to your original statement above … “telling the truth” may work — but ONLY for that half of the population that is predisposed towards _your_ “truths”.
The other side is not, and in reality probably regard the “truths” that you believe you are telling, to be lies….