I Honestly

Admittedly, “Times they are a changin,” but I still don’t quite understand.

If or when someone told me a lie, untruth, or fabrication, I never trusted them again.

Forgiveness never entered the equation. It was more as if a guillotine had severed the relationship because the validity had disappeared.

However, there seems to be more than an abundance of untruth, lying, distortions of facts, on both sides of the political aisle.

The new chants, new accusations and denials appear daily. The front page of the NYT religiously records each new one, and the cable news channels discuss them in minutiae.

And far more money than I can estimate is spent on Congressional investigations and committees determining who, where, what and when an untruth was spoken.

Why? I find it difficult to comprehend why we cannot just acknowledge the perpetrator of the falsehood is no longer to be trusted. Eliminate he or she from any further opportunity to muddy dialogues of any importance. Let them disappear quietly from our political stages, newspapers and TVs.

We focus endlessly on the “He said, She said,” aspects of each new accusation and/or revelation.

Meanwhile, perhaps “Rome is not burning,” but there are monumental issues facing our country at this very moment.

And yes, there are liars, for lack of a more generous word, receiving subpoenas and accusations in rapid procession this final month of 2018.

I love simplicity, and perhaps that falls into the negative side of my personalaity, but haven’t we complicated this issue?

Wouldn’t it be more efficient, simpler and less expensive just to sever those who have been caught in untruths from any further position of power?

I honestly don’t know, but I do wonder.