By now, just about everyone has heard about the massive campaign of lies that Republican George Santos fabricated that just got him elected to a congressional seat from New York.
In his various appearances and interviews to explain himself, the lack of shame he seems to feel is almost as uncanny as the lies themselves.
Sadly, Santos is a child and product of the troubling and, yes, dangerous state of affairs in our nation today.
A friend sent me a short cartoon version of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
The shyster weavers convince the vain emperor that there really are clothes when in fact there is nothing. They convince him that only fools and those unqualified in their work can’t see the fabric.
The only thing on anyone’s mind is what others think of them. There is no truth, only appearances.
Until one naive and unindoctrinated child steps forward and tells the truth that the emperor is naked.
It’s what happens when people become unmoored and lose a sense that there is something called reality, something bigger than themselves, of which they are a part.
A vital part of a child’s development is learning they are not the center of the world. That there are others, and they must be aware of the line where they end and others and the world outside begin.
In traditional cultures, there are rites of passage where children formally become adults and assume the responsibilities of adults.
But today, in our nation, where a sense of objective right and wrong has widely disappeared, there are no rites of passage, and many remain perpetually children. They insist the world is the way they want it to be rather than appreciating that there is a greater reality to which all must submit.
We see it culturally, economically and fiscally.
I write all the time about the mind-boggling debt being accumulated on the backs of American citizens. Fiscal responsibility is realism. It means the numbers must add up and debts are not incurred without clear ways to pay for them.
One analyst from the Institute for Policy Innovation calculates our national debt amounts to almost $600,000 per every American man, woman and child. This includes not just federal obligations on the order of some $30 trillion, but also debts built into Social Security and Medicare from an insufficient tax base to meet the obligations that must be met in upcoming years.
Yet what did this Congress do before ending its term? Pass another $1.7 trillion in spending.
The piper will be paid, and this is called reality.
On the cultural front, the U.S. Supreme Court, and now the U.S. Congress, has, based on politics and whim, redefined the eternal institution called marriage.
Is it any surprise, shortly after deciding you don’t need a man and a woman to constitute marriage, that now even who is a man and who is a woman is matter of personal whim?
So, George Santos is the man of our time. Why should he feel the need to submit to any “reality” more than what is happening in our culture at large?
What did Santos fabricate any more than the “1619 Project” fabricated about what American history is about?
Santos shows little shame because shame comes with appreciation that there are truths — right and wrong.
There is no shame in a culture where we make everything up.
Fortunately, there are many Americans who have not become detached from reality and see what is happening. But, still, many are afraid to say the emperor is naked.
But how long can widespread detachment from reality continue?
Meanwhile, an unrepentant liar, George Santos, a child of woke America, will be sworn into the sacred duty as a member of the U.S. Congress.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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The only thing different about him from the other members of Congress is we know he’s a liar, the others? Well!
Sane Republicans, in order to beat Corrupt lying Democrats must now rewrite the book of political campaign rules, and embrace what is to be called “The Santos Clause”,,,the gift giving way via political lying to acquire power that the Democrats use on us, and be the path to victory in Democrat stranglehold places like California, by becoming the very dark side of the enemy in order to defeat him at his own game on his own home turf. In WWII American war making was forced to daylight and night time bomb civilian cities and factories in order to destroy the war making capability of the Nazi and Japanese, the first to use these tactics ending with us nuking them before they nuked us. The difference between the people of light and the people of darkness is that when the battle (or election) is over, we revert to our peaceful productive way while the cockroach people of darkness just hide in the woodworks awaiting an opportunity to undermine the enlightened side of humanity with more of their consumption in darkness. The pragmatic fact is that if lying works, it’s good when evil is the opponent, never good when you use it within your own party on fellow Republicans lest The Party become just a reflection of Democrat lite. In politics as in elections THE PEOPLE have come to expect it, but should never respect it if it continues after the person wins the office and it hurts the people and keeps them uninformed instead of being a force of enlightenment.
For many, Lying seems to be as instinctual as breathing.. BUT SINCE HE’s a republican, he will get punished for it, while HUNDREDS in the Dem party will KEEP getting away with THEIR lies.
“Sadly, Santos is a child and product of the troubling and, yes, dangerous state of affairs in our nation today.” The bimbo bartender AOC now this compulsive liar? New York sure has a sanity problem. But so do the majority of Democrats.
This is exactly why the treasonous, woke, socialist Democrat Party is pushing so hard to start indoctrinating and brainwashing our children in schools and colleges, starting at the childs age of 5 years old.
Note that everything God has declared a sin or an abomination in the Holy Bible, this demonic, woke Democrat Party cult encourages, teaches, supports and protects.
If each time the lDemocrat iars had their pants catch on fire, the entire Capitol would be burnt to a crisp.
There’s days i wish that phrase, was a comment on Reality, not just a joke..
As soon as the Democrats remove their biggest liars from office (Biden and Schumer) I would be willing to remove Santos. In the meantime the idiot voters in NY can reap what they’ve sown.
IF we removed every liar in govt, there’d be NONE LEFT.
If he had been a democrat, the politicos would be throwing huge parties celebrating his lying ways
George Santos IS a Democrat.
George Santos is a Democrat RINO (Republican In Name Only)
Matthew 7:15-16
“Watch out for false prophets (Republicans). They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
16 By their fruit you will recognize them.
This is all on the NY State GOP Committee for not vetting their candidate. Not at all, apparently – breathtaking number of resume fabrications, lied about college, managed to hide criminal past. If they had done their job, this clown would never have made it through primary season.