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I am starting to despair a bit about things.
Not the football, that's going fine.
No, I mean other stuff.
This isn't another anti-Trump rant but he is involved in this.
I'm talking about the way that it now appears that concrete facts are no longer deemed immutable by large sections of our society.
Now, despite what many of you may well think, I'm not daft and I know that people have always told fibs if it suited their agenda.
They always have done and they always will do.
But that's always been ok because you could always blow their spurious arguments out of the water by citing facts to dispute what they were saying.
Now however, it seems that it is becoming increasingly acceptable to ignore facts and just argue until you're blue in the face that black is white.
Watch this:
That woman is basically saying that it's fine to just make stuff up and it's now a recognised political strategy for gaining popularity.
As I've just said, lying's one thing but the facts were always there to provide the truth.
I'm deeply concerned about this notion that you can just make stuff up and pass it off as fact and that's a legitimate way of getting what you want.
Traditionally, if a politician got caught out lying, they had to resign.
Nowadays, telling lies has become accepted as simply part of the process.
And that's dangerous.
Not the football, that's going fine.
No, I mean other stuff.
This isn't another anti-Trump rant but he is involved in this.
I'm talking about the way that it now appears that concrete facts are no longer deemed immutable by large sections of our society.
Now, despite what many of you may well think, I'm not daft and I know that people have always told fibs if it suited their agenda.
They always have done and they always will do.
But that's always been ok because you could always blow their spurious arguments out of the water by citing facts to dispute what they were saying.
Now however, it seems that it is becoming increasingly acceptable to ignore facts and just argue until you're blue in the face that black is white.
Watch this:
That woman is basically saying that it's fine to just make stuff up and it's now a recognised political strategy for gaining popularity.
As I've just said, lying's one thing but the facts were always there to provide the truth.
I'm deeply concerned about this notion that you can just make stuff up and pass it off as fact and that's a legitimate way of getting what you want.
Traditionally, if a politician got caught out lying, they had to resign.
Nowadays, telling lies has become accepted as simply part of the process.
And that's dangerous.
