I like writing to try to encourage people to search for and find “the honest truth.” I’ve always believed in fairness (even when it goes against my own opinions, feelings, and desires). Fairness seems in short supply today, replaced by unsubstantiated accusations and propaganda. I like trying to cut through (and encouraging other people to cut through) deception and denial.

It’s important to be honest and fair. Being one-sided in what you say is to abandon fairness. If you can’t prove it with undeniable evidence or you haven’t experienced it yourself, it’s best not to say it.

The nature of “propaganda” is one-sidedness. That’s all I see in most political posts — blind praise of one candidate and blind accusations of the other. All humans have liabilities and faults. It’s not fair to point out those of one candidate and to ignore those of the other. It’s even worse when candidates and their followers distort the truth and/or falsely accuse each other.

If you want
To be correct
You can’t neglect
To fact check.
False words will wreck
People’s respect
For your integrity.
Choose to collect
Truth instead of
Blind accusations.
If you overlook
Or distort the truth
You will infect
Other people
And your own heart
With deception.

Blind speculations
Lead to miscalculations,
False accusations,
And cruel allegations.

It’s hard to admit truth that you don’t want to hear. Lord, help me to live by truth, not by my unproven opinions, feelings, and desires. We live in the age of deniers:
* Global warming deniers.
* Prenatal-life deniers.
* Election deniers.
* Gender deniers.
* Guilt deniers.
* Insecurity deniers.
* History deniers.
* Moral accountability deniers.
* Love deniers.
* Pandemic deniers.
* Civility deniers.