| I'm not an American, but this is silly. > I was ready to cite examples of the left playing fast and loose with the truth but I sense it will just create hostility. I mean, sounds like an excuse to not participate. The question seems quite black and white. We have a few classic lies: * Obama is a Muslim from Kenya
* His wife is transgender
* Climate change is a hoax
* COVID is a hoax
* Climate change is a hoax
* There is not enough pollution in the world
* The Democrats are Communists
* The Democrats run an occult pederasty wing through Twitter
* Trump won the 2020 election All of these are widely believed by Conservatives and all of these have been widely spread by Conservative speakers. Can you find even one comparable lie to any of these spread by prominent Democrats (not some random Twitter account)? Trump is is in a category of his own. * Here he is claiming to be the best at all these fields he knows nothing about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GqJna9hpTE
* Here are his lies about COVID: https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/blog-posts/timeline-t...
* Here's an approximate count of his lies over 4 years - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-fa... All of his lies have been strongly supported by Republicans Can you find one Democrat a fraction as mendacious as Donald Trump? |
I mean, sounds like an excuse to not participate."
Actually, I was exactly right. I'm sensing some hostility from you right now and I'm making the mistake of engaging when I should just let it go.
>"Can you find even one comparable lie to any of these spread by prominent Democrats (not some random Twitter account)?"
So on the one hand, the laundry list you gave is acceptable as "widely believed by Conservatives", but I have to provide counterexamples that are only restricted to "prominent democrats"? You also don't qualify what 'widely believed' means, so I can just as easily claim that people on the left widely believe other falsehoods. If it is so bad that some conservatives agree with the idea that "Democrats are Communists", is it not exactly the same thing as Democrats believing that "Republicans as Fascists"? This is a widely believed view by Progressives.
I'm not here to chuck a laundry list of "lies" at you. Quite frankly I see something like "Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" and I roll my eyes. Am I seriously expected to believe that number is anywhere close to accurate? I dare say the majority of those are subject to interpretation, which we will not be doing here.