I was watching Fox this morning — yes, Fox — and they were back on the Alaska story I wrote about the other day: the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot, and the question of whether voters might split their votes between two men with the same name while Mary Peltola walks through the middle of it.
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Like everyone else on this planet, I don’t like to admit I was wrong. I have been. I won’t take complete responsibility, though: I can’t report the truth if I’m being recited a lie. But in fairness, I should’ve been better about validating sources, simply because — as I know, and you do as well — everyone lies. It’s easy, isn’t it? We used to call them “white lies,” as they would be minor lies of commission, but I think today using the word “white” in front of anything would be tantamount to being charged with a hate crime.
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Yesterday, in Part One of this series, I laid out how America sees its atheists: last in trust, coldest on the thermometer, and — in Gallup’s long-running ballot test — acceptable as a presidential candidate to just 41% of Republicans, against 69% of Democrats. That gap has a question buried in it, and it’s my question, because it’s about my side of the street.
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I keep running into it on X: seven million, eight million Jews killed by Hitler. Not from deniers — from people who plainly believe they’re honoring the victims by saying it. But the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s figure, built from decades of transport lists, camp records, and demographic reconstruction, is six million Jews murdered. That is the documented number, and it does not need help.
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What’s it called when a person knows the truth but refuses to acknowledge it? Well, denialism fits, as does cognitive dissonance. Something I find more disconcerting every year is the number of people afflicted with this disease. I know it’s not an actual disease, the kind tracked by the Centers for Disease Control, but it is an epidemic that has exploded among the population as a whole.
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