Letter: Truth, democracy and the economy

Published: 11-11-2024 3:02 PM

The following is quoted from a LTE that I submitted last year: “A relationship between two people depends on truth to survive; a family depends on truth to survive; a society depends on truth to survive; justice depends on truth to survive and a democracy depends on truth to survive! For a democracy to work, it is essential that we the citizens agree in some minimal way about what reality looks like. It is the foundation of democratic politics that no one person or institution has sole authority to determine what is truth. A democracy cannot exist on “alternative facts” or “conspiracy theories” or the twisting of the truth to support a political bias or agenda. A democracy is dependent on debate and compromise but that debate and compromise must be based on truth and facts.”

This election was won because Trump was able to convince most of the American people to believe his lies, especially his lies about the economy. The following is recently quoted from Joyce Vance: “When the dust settles, I expect the people who assess elections will tell us disinformation was key in 2024. It wasn’t the economy, it was the disinformation about the economy. That disinformation successfully led voters across the country to believe they were worse off, despite October reporting in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that we have the best economy in the world, a remarkable recovery from Covid.” My goal going forward is to tell the truth about Trump’s lies and disinformation.

Ronald Litalien

Canterbury

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