This statement, you would think, would be obvious. The kind of advice that moms and dads say to their kids as they grow up and that kids take to heart and follow as a way of being: Don't follow leaders who have to lie to you to get you to follow them.
Such advice can help a person in all sorts of scenarios: ditching a bad boss, leaving a questionable religious leader, walking away from a slimy investment guru.
Faced with everyday circumstances, we likely do exactly that: walk away and tell the guy lying to us to get lost.
Yet, here we are, a nation still following a chief executive of our country and his officials who continue to lie to us.
Has that innate sense of knowing we deserve better than to be lied to -- the very sense that guides us out of a sketchy car-salesman's office -- has that sense of what we accept for ourselves disappeared entirely when it comes to the running of our country?
If there's any office we should be the most wary of following when the holder is known to lie repeatedly, it is this one.
These huge, expensive, life-risking, life-taking, monumental lies -- they are lies that benefit a few elite. The war profiteers all around the world.
We are paying with our blood and the soul of our very country.
Is it that we do we not see the lies? Have we grown so accustomed to them that we cannot tell what is true anymore?
Have we heard or told so many lies in our own lives -- to make a buck, to get some insurance money, to have affair, to get out of a ticket, to get a story published, to make someone else take the fall for something we did -- that we literally have lost our sense of what truth feels like?
If so, then it's no wonder we have the administration we have -- it is an outgrowth of our own state of being.
The other alternative is that we do know exactly, deep down, that we're being lied to -- not just by our chief, but by many, many others all the way up and down the line -- but we feel powerless to do anything about it.
That truth resonates within us and we are so deeply upset by what's happening that we are almost in despair, turning to junk TV to keep us out of the abyss of horror we will know if we turn into it.
It's not so much that we're following this leadership, but that we haven't yet rebelled. We haven't yet found it within ourselves to shout "No" in a loud enough voice that it resonates throughout the universe and vibrates the liars right out of the White House and right out of Congress.
I'm asking you to find that voice now.
This is an inner turning even more than an outer one. Do you feel you deserve the truth from our government?
If you don't feel you deserve the truth, do nothing. You'll get more of the same.
But if you do feel you deserve it, say to yourself, "Enough! I deserve the truth." Just feeling and declaring that you deserve the truth will make worlds shift.
We are approaching the eve of another war, a war that has great potential to cause consequences that will uproot everything we know. If we don't find our voice to demand the truth -- from government, media and ourselves -- we will have to find the strength to face our muteness after the world we believe in collapses around our ankles.
