OPINION:
Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie that’s big enough often enough, people will believe it.
Liberal lies are soothing. They create an alternate reality and play into popular prejudices, including hatred of the rich, oil companies and Jews.
The big lies of 2025 included:
Trump is responsible for the affordability crisis: President Trump has been in office for less than a year. Joseph R. Biden was president for four years. Mr. Biden added $6 trillion in new spending, and inflation was as high as 9%. Under Mr. Trump, it’s down to 2.7%. Mr. Trump is lowering the cost of energy, a major factor in the prices of goods and services. The president’s tax cuts will fuel prosperity. The Grinch stole from the Whos. He didn’t put money into their pockets.
The mutilation of children is “gender care”: The House of Representatives recently passed legislation blocking the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors. Gender care is based on the fantasy that a person can change their sex. In reality, if you were born a male, you will remain a male for the rest of your life, even if it’s a male without a penis because of mad-scientist experiments. Those with gender dysphoria need professional help and compassion, not drugs and life-altering surgery.
Global warming is a threat to life on this planet: The environmentalist cult would have us believe that the consumption of fossil fuels will doom the planet, but none of the predictions of 20 years ago has come to pass. In 2006, former Vice President Al Gore said sea levels would rise by 20 feet in two decades. He was off by only 19 feet, 9 inches. In 2007, we were told polar bears would be extinct by 2050. There are more now than there were then. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, whose philanthropy helped fund climate hysteria, now says climate change will have unfortunate consequences but “will not lead to humanity’s demise.” Instead of melting polar ice caps, Mr. Gore is back to warning us about ManBearPig.
Islam is a peaceful religion: Almost every terrorist atrocity anywhere in the world is fueled by the so-called religion of peace, including attacks on Christmas markets in Europe, kidnappings and mass murder in Africa, assassinations in America and the Oct. 7, 2023, horrors in Israel. Islam has showered humanity with such acts of loving kindness as the subjugation of women, genital mutilation, honor killings, grooming gangs and no-go zones. That’s why the friendly faith appeals so strongly to the most violent people on earth, in places such as Iran, Afghanistan and U.S. prisons.
Socialism works: Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York has created renewed interest in an economic system that has failed repeatedly over the course of two centuries. A recent poll showed that 62% of Americans younger than 30 have a favorable view of socialism. In 1959, Cuba had one of the highest per capita gross domestic product in the hemisphere. In the 1950s, Venezuela was the fourth richest country in the world. Today, both are economic basket cases. President Reagan said, “There are only two places where socialism works: heaven, where they don’t need it, and hell, where they already have it.” The Cubans, Venezuelans and North Koreans have been living in hell for some time. New Yorkers are about to join them.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the American Gestapo: The Democrats allowed 10 million illegal aliens to flood the country, including murderers and rapists, during the Biden presidency. Now they are doing everything they can to prevent deporting them. Enforcing immigration laws isn’t brutality; it’s protecting our sovereignty and the lives of Americans. According to the FBI, we’re heading for the lowest homicide rate in modern times. That might have something to do with getting 2.5 million illegal aliens, including the worst of the worst, off our streets.
Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip: Nazi genocide resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews. Israeli “genocide” has resulted in a 2.84% population increase in Gaza. The war was forced on Israel by Hamas’ atrocities. The terrorists did everything possible to maximize civilian casualties for propaganda purposes, by putting fighters in schools and hospitals.
The lies keep getting bigger and more outrageous (e.g. “diversity is our greatest strength”). Lies are the handmaiden of liberalism. Every institution owned by the left — the legacy media, academia, public education and liberal churches — lies shamelessly.
Liberal lies are a growth industry. Business is good.
• Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times.
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