Blog 3254 – 09.29.2024

Writing Truth Is Harder Than Fiction

The biggest reason that writing truth is more difficult than writing fiction is that facts have to be checked and doubled checked to insure accuracy. No fact checking is necessary for writing fiction. That is not to say that sometimes great truths can nevertheless be communicated through fictional stories, however when it comes getting quickest to the bottom of things we can say as fictional Los Angeles police detective Joe Friday always said while questioning an eye witness to a crime, “Just the facts, Ma’am, just the facts.”

The undeniably record holding story teller of our time (that’s what we called liars when I was a boy) is none other than Donald J. Trump. Instead of the Art of the Deal he has made dealing in falsehoods an art form. He reminds me of the old joke, “You can tell he is lying because his lips are moving.” Yet those enthralled in the cult of Trump are not put off by the way he uses “other facts” to try to distract from his true intention which is to promote himself, his brand, and to cover his tracks and his more than ample posterior.

For years now we have been expecting Donald Trump to get caught in the axiom, “You cannot lie and get by, no matter how hard you may try.” There is a reckoning, an accounting correction (pun intended) for all liars and cheats. The little man behind the curtain furiously pulling levers to project the Great and Powerful Oz is always revealed for the fraud he actually is in the end. Or as a truly great Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, once said, “You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

Donald J. Trump’s day of reckoning will come and it will be incontestable and undeniable. I believe that day will be this November 5th. Though all the polls still say it will be a close election, I think it is going to be the great reveal of the great lie. For not only does justice matter, but truth will out.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White