{"id":386055,"date":"2018-11-22T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/liar-liar\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T03:56:07","slug":"liar-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/liar-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Liar Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107328\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107328\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/12752922954_5c46245e2f_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/12752922954_5c46245e2f_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/12752922954_5c46245e2f_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Cat Branchman | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe dictatorship\u2019s mistake was to torture but not kill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jair Bolsonaro (Radio interview, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t get voted out of office\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Bill Gates<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Antonio Gramsci (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/071780397X\/counterpunchmaga\">Prison Notebooks<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sadist needs the person over whom he rules, he needs him very badly, since his own feeling of strength is rooted in the fact that he is the master over someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Erich Fromm (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805031499\/counterpunchmaga\">Escape from Freedom<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Years ago Robert Bly talked about Ronald Reagan\u2019s capacity for lying. He said Reagan grew up lying about his father, an alcoholic, and his dysfunctional childhood which he routinely described as happy. How the enormity of that lie, and all the attendant pressures of such intimate dishonesty made lying about the Iran\/Contra deal much easier. And I recently heard Gabor Mate say the same sort of thing about Donald Trump. How Trump grew up with an abusive authoritarian father, one who humiliated and belittled the boy Trump, and the world of that boy was one of cruelty and abuse. And if that is the only world you know growing up, that is the world you will see everywhere around you later. And the only way to navigate a world of abasement and lying was to be better at it than those who had abused you. The grandiose aggressiveness and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/21\/liar-liar\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Cat Branchman | CC BY 2.0 \u201cThe dictatorship\u2019s mistake was to torture but not kill.\u201d \u2013 Jair Bolsonaro (Radio interview, 2016) \u201cI don\u2019t get voted out of office\u201d. \u2013 Bill Gates \u201cI hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}