Make Lying Un-American.... Again?

[deacon blues]

I've been reflecting on political scene again, and came up with a prospective political credo. "Make Lying Un-American Again." But when I break it down it is discouraging.
"Again" is unrealistic- when was lying ever Un-american? Am I being too negative?
"Lying" is.... realistic? Can we survive, let alone compete in this world if complete, flawless honesty is our standard. Most of you would recognize that even the LDS Church found such a standard unsustainable. Apparently, even their God would agree. We can blame them for that, but.... I for one can't condemn them. I lie myself, even when trying to avoid it.
"American/Un-American" is a varied, even contrasting of number of ideals. What makes American and her people great? Can we agree on even one thing?
this turned out more negative than I intended. I'll just say, "Take care of yourselves out there, and try to find room to love others, even if its just some others.

[wtfluff]

Which part of "America" are we talking about here?

Argentina?

Venezuela?

Greenland?

[nibbler]

The challenge is that people can't tell truth from fiction. I think it's more obvious and in your face these days but people have always had that problem.

No doubt there are bad actors that intentionally lie. Then you have misinformed people that lie unintentionally. Then there's the people with pathologies that say whatever they need to believe to soothe their egos.

People also consider their information sources as golden but all their sources are really doing is selling their own opinions back to them.

The challenge is that both red and blue camps believe it's the other side that's lying.

I think with marketing they always try to go for positive messaging. That's how a plan to burn the country to ashes gets repackaged as "Make America Great Again."