August 12, 2016

The Never Ending Politics of Truth

Truth is something that should not be disputed. Facts are facts and truth is truth. The sky appearing blue is a fact. Gravity is a fact. It is true that if you jump from a building you will fall. We are, unfortunately, reaching a moment when facts and truth are in dispute because of the politicization of everything. The debate over climate change is a good example. I know of no one who disputes that the climate changes. After all, we have seasons. Likewise, I know few people who are unwilling to admit that mankind might be affecting the environment. But I find it remarkable that whether the political left in America, of which the environmentalist movement is a part, thinks the world is cooling or warming, the solutions are always the same. Poor countries must stay poor and rich countries must become poor countries.

Truth is something that should not be disputed. Facts are facts and truth is truth. The sky appearing blue is a fact. Gravity is a fact. It is true that if you jump from a building you will fall. We are, unfortunately, reaching a moment when facts and truth are in dispute because of the politicization of everything.

The debate over climate change is a good example. I know of no one who disputes that the climate changes. After all, we have seasons. Likewise, I know few people who are unwilling to admit that mankind might be affecting the environment. But I find it remarkable that whether the political left in America, of which the environmentalist movement is a part, thinks the world is cooling or warming, the solutions are always the same. Poor countries must stay poor and rich countries must become poor countries.

In the ongoing quest to politicize everything, it becomes more and more difficult to build consensus and acknowledge facts because many of the people championing “facts” are really championing their own version of a fact, not the actual fact. The environmentalist movement tells us we are past the precipice and a warming planet is unavoidable, but instead of embracing nuclear power or encouraging adaptation, the environmentalists bitterly cling to wind and solar power and demand we reverse a course they say cannot be reversed. The last time we relied exclusively on wind and solar power, by the way, we called it the Dark Ages.

Facts should be facts, but aggressive politicization makes it impossible to trust the political peddlers of facts. Facts are politicized because whoever controls the truth can control minds. Thus we find the president of the United States politicizing as many aspects of our lives as possible in an attempt to shape fact and control lives.

One of the unnoticed aspects of this politicization has been what is happening in the military. More and more, the Obama administration views the American military as a place for social experimentation, not killing bad guys. The military has become a petri dish into which the Obama administration places all the left’s ideas for society at large.

To get to this point, the president had to put politically minded soldiers in charge. Over the course of President Obama’s eight years, instead of putting experienced soldiers in charge, he has presided over a politicized military structure with men and women in charge who are afraid to take risks and seek, at all costs, to protect the president instead of keeping the nation safe. Thus truth collides with death.

The incident in Benghazi had to be blamed on a YouTube video and riots, instead of a planned terrorist attack because the administration was caught with its pants down on the September 11th preceding a presidential election. The truth had to be shaped and facts had to be altered to protect the precious, which is always Barack Obama.

Now, again, we are seeing political leaders within the military shaping facts and truth to protect the precious instead of the American people. A new report documents that CENTCOM, the United States Central Command, knowingly and intentionally shaped intelligence reports and public statements to make it appear the Obama administration has been far more successful in combating ISIS than they really have been.

According to Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas, who sat on a task force looking to whistleblower accusations about altered intelligence reports, the actual professional intelligence analysts got the reports right, but CENTCOM altered them. The truth had to show success where the actual truth did not show success.

While the task force found no evidence White House officials pressured CENTOM to alter reports and statements, they did not have to. White House officials never pressured the IRS to harass conservative groups. They just made sure to appropriately politicize appointments and hirings so those who were put in place knew to always protect the precious.

Truth and fact should be beyond dispute. But it is harder and harder to determine truth from spin and fact from fiction. This is what happens when a political movement insists on politicizing everything to advance their agenda.

COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.