Nadene Goldfoot
Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi propagandist, is often credited with saying, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it". This is a propaganda technique known as the "illusion of truth" effect. Actually it was in Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, and that the Jews were accused of lying--and by the liars,
the Nazis, themselves.
The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:
His primary rules were: 1. never allow the public to cool off; 2. never admit a fault or wrong; 3. never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; 4. never leave room for alternatives; 5. never accept blame; 6. concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; 7. people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and 8. if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.Randall Bytwerk argues that neither Hitler nor Goebbels would admit to lying.
Now our government is saying things not true:
Trump said, “We inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe.” This wasn’t true. prices of eggs just went up due to chicken flu now, all following price raising is an example. Currently, prices are rising significantly on items like eggs, meat, coffee, travel, home insurance, streaming services, and many types of produce due to factors like inflation, increased production costs, and disruptions in supply chains; with some of the most noticeable price hikes occurring in the food sector, particularly for items like fruits and vegetables affected by weather events like droughts and floods. Inflation turned out to be the surprise villain of Joe Biden’s four-year presidency. It arrived with little warning in 2021, hit a 40-year high in 2022, and undoubtedly contributed to Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election.
Trump said, “We’re going to have growth in the auto industry like nobody’s ever seen. Plants are opening up all over the place.” That wasn’t true. This is in the future, hasn't happened yet.
Trump said, towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, were “destroyed” by immigrants. That wasn’t true. Cities are still standing; As for Aurora, they are financially in the black. The city pursues efficiencies, innovations, cost-savings and
continuous improvements when managing its resources
The city will:
The city creates a budget to provide the best possible services
within the resources available and maintain adequate reserve levels
F I N A N C I A L S T A B I L I T Y
The city has a positive bond credit rating, which is a measure of credit
worthiness of government bonds. In 2019, the national credit rating
agency, Moody's, upgraded the city's credit rating from Aa1 to Aaa
stable, which is the top rating available and speaks to the city's financial
strength and well-managed finances.
Truth in Accounting ranked Aurora No. 5 for Fiscal Health in the U.S.
(No. 5 among Top 5 Sunshine Cities, meaning enough assets to cover
the city's debt)
Truth in Accounting
WalletHub ranked Aurora the second best run city in Colorado in 2021
based on financial stability, education, health, economy, infrastructure, It’s been a few weeks since Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance threw an ugly spotlight on the small city of
Springfield, Ohio, by spreading unverified claims about Haitian immigrants killing and eating people’s pets. Since then, the city has seen multiple bomb threats, school closures and growing fear within the city’s immigrant community. William Brangham reports.
Trump said, in reference to Europe and aid to Ukraine, “[W]e’ve spent perhaps $350 billion, and they’ve spent $100 billion.” That wasn’t true. To date, the US has committed about $114 billion in Ukraine-related emergency funding, and could go to $240 billion.
Trump said, “For the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction.” That wasn’t true. Trump's shocking half the country at least into thinking this isn't the path we thought he was taking; buying Panama Canal and Greenland when we are so deep in debt we have to give up so much to get out of it?
Trump said, in reference to Biden-era inflation, rates were the worst “perhaps even in the history of our country, they’re not sure.” They are sure and that wasn’t true. Biden was criticized by many Republicans, including former president and current presidential rival Donald Trump, for telling CNN in an interview last Wednesday: “No president’s had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation. It was 9% percent when I came to office, 9%.”
Trump said the Biden administration imposed an “electric vehicle mandate.” That wasn’t true. The new rule will make it more difficult for gas-powered cars to keep up with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards, which will ratchet up over time, and they’ll need “more advanced technology that will drive up prices,” Abuelsamid said. At the same time, he noted, the increased production and availability of EVs will bring their average cost down. Other analysts disagreed. Amaiya Khardenavis, an EV charging infrastructure analyst with Wood Mackenzie, said he doesn’t expect prices to rise for gas-powered cars because the technology is already there.
Trump said, “I’ve stopped all government censorship.” That wasn’t true. But this claim couldn’t be further from the truth. Trump has consistently rewarded speech he likes while punishing speech he doesn’t. That kind of “viewpoint discrimination” is exactly what the First Amendment seeks to prevent. In fact, Trump’s actions run counter to the spirit—if not the text—of the First Amendment.
When someone lies so much they start believing their own lies, it's often referred to as "pathological lying" and is considered a sign of a mental health issue where they may lose track of reality and believe their fabricated stories as truth, sometimes due to the repetition of the lies they've told themselves and others. What Type of Liar Believes Their Own Lies? Both pathological and compulsive liars may believe their own lies. This can be why pathological liars won't admit to their lies or apologize for the things they have said because, in their minds, they are true.
The “big lie” is an expression coined by Adolf Hitler to describe his technique of telling a lie so colossal that no one would ever suspect it was not true. He first described this concept in Mein Kampf (German for “My Struggle”), the autobiographical manifesto outlining his plans for ruling Germany. He surmised most people would never think of fabricating colossal untruths, so they would not believe others had. In other words, Hitler understood that people would see the world through the lens of basic honesty and would assume that same trait in others.
Resource:
https://www.cato.org/blog/high-cost-war-ukraine-aid-could-top-240-billion?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAiaC-BhBEEiwAjY99qPjALZfdP6QzkL1cKct1tbdGKNkMSHNf610XfKx6yw2C9I6BtwJA9BoCT58QAvD_BwE
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/fact-check-biden-inflation-when-he-became-president/index.html
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4545415-electric-vehicle-rule-epa-biden-administration-what-to-know/
https://time.com/7264811/trump-free-speech-joint-address-essay/
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-speech-fact-check-joint-address-congress-lies-rcna194848
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-life-in-springfield-has-been-disrupted-by-lies-about-its-haitian-community
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot#:~:text=Joseph%20Goebbels%3A%20On%20the%20%E2%80%9CBig%20Lie%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CIf%20you%20tell%20a%20lie,eventually%20come%20to%20believe%20it.
https://icejusa.org/2019/12/04/the-big-lie-against-the-jew/?SC=24GOAD&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign={evergreen}&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAiaC-BhBEEiwAjY99qPGSOPMRS2hWsBEYNrvNp5oh5VEwmpLqJte769seg9GAhVGr
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