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Maybe once upon a time, America would have clearly led the pack, but it’d squandered that leadership over many decades as the country itself had become more polarized and elected more extreme leaders on both ends of the spectrum.
That was the thing about the truth; it only came out when the cost of lying became too high.
Survival. Maybe that was the thing about truth. Sometimes you said what you had to in order to get the best outcome, because humans were imperfect, because they didn’t always do the logical thing, because they sometimes needed to be tricked into saving themselves.