https://www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-appears-admit-tale-151656091.html

Let me lead with a quote from the article listed above:

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said the senator.

Kind readers, perhaps I am misunderstanding the quote. My impression, perhaps foolish, is that he is saying that he can make up any story no matter how outlandish if it furthers his political narrative.

So, if a story of, oh say, a Bigfoot sighting, plays well in drawing attention to, say, interest rates,, no doubt an important issue — the Bigfoot story will be told with great passion. The fact that it is just a story is irrelevant if the story is effective.

Wow, generally speaking when we talk about the Big Lie, (not the 2020 election big lie, the one before that), the one in “Mein Kamp” that if you repeated a lie often enough many will believe it, this is a whole new take. If you have a “higher” purpose making up stories is okay.

That, of course, is nonsense. It is also a direct contradiction of morality and ethics.

Is it not written that lies are wrong? For instance: Proverbs 13, Verse 5: The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves.

When someone admits that they will make up stories to get media attention, we get what we have now, a series of cruelties and nonsense perpetrated on an American community, which apparently is okay with J.D. Vance. I suppose all that suffering, the bomb threats and the demonizing of Haitians is also useful in furthering the narrative. So, it’s a twofer, you get the benefits of a made up story and the havoc that the false story brought.

This may be considered a success by some in the political game but not by me. I can’t help but think that real stories of real people with a strong factual basis are superior and call attention to actual issues of importance to all Americans. I am sure to some this appears naïve. But no matter what people say and think I continue to believe that truth is better than lies. I also believe that knowingly using lies as a part of your narrative is a dramatic indication of a lack of a moral character.

There is still right and wrong even in divided America.

James Alan Pilant