I have been left of Marx my entire adult life, but realistically, when I tally up the three most significant political lies of my lifetime, they are:
1) Origins of Covid.
2) Safety of Covid vaccines and their ongoing efficacy.
3) The Hunter laptop farce, with 50 intelligence officials publicly declaring it disinformation. Significant because it may have swung an American election and purposefully so.
All three gigantic lies with unbelievably significant consequences were generated by the Democratic Party leadership of the last 10 years.
And then, as an old journalism major (two years, anyway), the greatest threats to free speech, most of which are entwined with the above lies, have come from the current incarnation of the Democratic Party.
There's something almost comforting about an idiot trying to sell me on the idea of injecting bleach to battle Covid because I know better. It's another thing to have science hijacked by commercial and political interests in the U.S. and being told that they know better when they are lying through their collective teeth and slamming down free speech in the process.
The Democratic Part hasn't just lost its way. Somehow it has become more authoritarian than a party helmed by Trump, which seemed impossible 10 years ago.