What is truth

Subject: What is truth.

Politics is a dirty game, we all know that. Its a device to convince people of what the politician wants us to believe regardless of the truth. Truth often gets in the way, in part because this type of truth is not a scientific, empirically sought truth but rather an emotionally held belief which is the result of so much environmentally rooted experience. We believe what we want to believe and we are further egged on into believing what other professional soothsayers wish us to believe.

The media is big business, it has axes to grind and the fulfilment of powerful agendas the manipulation of facts to suite the story is par for the course.

Watching Donald Trump "take on the media" after the riot in Charlottesville where he stood before, not as is usually the case, a Presidentially respectful press core but a baying mob of shrill soothsayers who were virtually incoherent with rage demanding that the President hadn't been on their side decrying the violence of the so called "far right" white nationalists and racially motivated Klu Klux Klan when ranged against against the "far left" comprising the liberals who wished to see the removal of the Robert E Lee statue in Charlottesville. 

The history of the "South" the American War of Independence, the subsequent patches of violence in different parts of the country were based largely on different interpretations of race and equality. Today in our need to cleanse the past of widely held beliefs based on race, slavery and the "owning" of people with a dark skin brought over from Africa to work in the cotton fields, we become fraught with guilt or extremely volatile in its defence. The past haunts the Americans of a certain political persuasion as it haunts certain people in Britain regarding Empire, in France regarding their African territories, in Germany for a range of historical acts. The Russians have their USSR, the Chinese have their Mao period, the Australians have their missing children and the ongoing Aboriginal issue. No country is without a past but the past represents a time when views held then now run counter to views held today. It's a hard call to blanket people with distance for holding views that were common around them at the time. People then as today were influenced by the media and the politicians. South Africa's Apartheid was fuelled by the "them and us" scenario promulgated by the Nationalist party and aided by the ANC in Dar Es Salaam the centre of the Russian effort to destabilise the European rule in Africa.  In its simplest form the ANC were communist and wished to take over the country. The Whites were defending their right to stay in the country. People were brainwashed into taking sides.

The statue of Robert E Lee represented the battle between the plantation owners in the South and the Business of Capitalism as represented in Washington. 

Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson, George Washington were all generals fighting in the civil war. Each had a cause represented by their 'up bringing' and for that very reason we should be very careful in apportioning blame. The uprooting of statues of people who represented a view of politics and society at a particular time is fraught with predudice.

What was remarkable about the Trump press conference was the visceral hatred the press now have for the President. As much as he reasoned that both sides were intent on violence and therefore equally guilty, the more the press became almost incoherent with rage that he should dane to evaluate the White Nationalists with the Black Nationalists. 

We see it in this country when the terrible events in our northern towns where Muslim men run White girl prostitution gangs in the guise of White morality set against their own Patriarchal religiosity and because of the enormous fear of being called racist, the police sat on the information they had and let the situation fester for years.

Trump was up against the Liberal Establishment which for decades now have had things all their own way. Political Correctness has become an anathema to most level headed seekers of the "truth", what ever that truth may be. 

The truth to much of the mob who make up the Washington Press Corp is fixated in the column they wrote the night before the, event happened.