Robert

I have taken a look at your work in the past (I've been here 31 months) and recently looked at some of your articles.

It seems quite simplistic to assume Joe Average will know what a lie is and vote against it. We just need to train that voter in the right way--and he/she will figure out what to do.

The 30% of eligible voters who voted Republican in the Virginia governor race believe their version of the truth is the right version: the 2020 presidential election was stolen; the courts hearing those 60 cases were fixed; the 1-6 was just a friendly protest; the government will come for them after it finishes with Mr. Trump.

Some of this stems back to Mr. Clinton's impeachment in 1998. He lied under oath. And the D's let him get away with it. For many Americans, politics is just one big lie. If the D's can do it, what's wrong with the R's tilting the truth?

Modern psychology has many reasons for lying and accepting lies. For example, the social circles of the Trump base are other people who accept these lies. If a Trumpee were to say to himself, "This is all a big lie," that person would be socially isolated. Many people just can't throw their social circle away. So they will rationalize the lie.

I'm not sure relying on the logic of Descartes is effective in this matter. It should be that simple, but it isn't.