Public Comment

When people in a big aggregation all believe the same lie, it starts to become more passable as truth. Yet it doesn't matter how many believe in a lie; it continues to be a lie. The Republican Party in the U.S. wants to deny the results of the 2020 election. They have no evidence whatsoever to substantiate the bogus claims that the election results were rigged. They assert it is so because they say so. 

Israel and sixteen European countries have laws against Holocaust denial. In the U.S. there is no law against it because of the protections afforded by the First Amendment. In the U.S. you can think and say anything you want no matter how dumb, so long as you don't rip off someone's copyrighted material and call it your own, commit fraud of some kind, or issue a threat against someone. I've spoken to a Holocaust denier. At the time, I didn't know what to think--I'd never been told, "It didn't happen." As a Jew by birth, such an assertion is beyond offensive, beyond an outrage, and a clear sign that something is wrong. I'm not going to say those were fighting words, in part because the denier in this case was female and smaller than I. But also, beating a person up, if they weren't female, doesn't erase the Holocaust, it only complicates solving the underlying problems that led to the Holocaust. 

There are cultlike aggregations of people who believe the Apollo manned missions to the Moon were a hoax produced by the U.S. Government. A 1977 move "Capricorn One" that starred James Brolin, at face value was about a hoaxed manned mission to Mars. It appears it was loosely based on conspiracy theories about the Apollo missions. I've been to websites produced by Apollo deniers. So, Apollo deniers really exist. 

Denying things that are documented, that are proven beyond any infinitesimal reason to doubt, is done by people who lie for a purpose. The purpose is to bend truth, and this is for the purpose of dominance and destruction. It makes people feel powerful. In fact, such individuals who do this should try to have power over themselves.