The invention of lying

A turning point in the history of American political dementia came when the Confederacy trudged home from the Civil War with a silver medal. The pathological thinking the South had needed to justify slavery lives on 150 years later in the current hate campaigns against people of color, against science and education and against the elected national government.

Some racists today threaten to adopt what they call "second amendment solutions." That's a call for a second Civil War. There will be--of course--no war. Even the badly warped Republican leadership, trained in hateful lying, will stop short of another open rebellion. What concerns me are attempts to reason with these addled prevaricators. It cannot be done successfully. They are not equipped to participate in rational discussion.