“ The notion that powerful people lie to the public is certainly not new.”
The one thing that is different now is that EVERYTHING that comes out of the U.S. government, the current administration, the political establishment, and it’s mouthpieces in the media and culture is a bald faded lie. Everything down to the smallest detail is a lie, and there is nothing but lies. Nothing coming from the American establishment can or should be believed as even having a sliver of truth in it.
The purpose of the clear lies is humiliation.