Someone once said — and I am going to paraphrase it — that a lie can lap the field before the truth jumps out of the starting blocks.

So it is with the myriad lies that continue to flood our minds, our airwaves, our newspaper columns. The lies deal with mostly with The Big Lie, the one that suggests that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Donald Trump. It wasn’t, of course.

When will the lying run its course? When will enough of us will say, “Enough is enough; enough, already!”?

Will that moment arrive sometime in this new year that is about to dawn on us? Someone needs to tell me, “Yes. It will happen.”

Too many Americans continue to kneel in front of the cult leader who once occupied the U.S. presidency. He is perpetuating The Big Lie. He has yet to say out loud that Joe Biden defeated him in the freest, fairest, most legal, most secure presidential election in U.S. history. He talks about the election being “rigged” in 2020 and yet he seeks to rig it in real terms by persuading state election officials to pursuing legal avenues to overturn the results of the most recent presidential election.

Do you see the irony in this “rigged election” scenario?

I am acutely aware of the naivete in wishing the lying will stop. I know that politicians of all stripes aren’t always truthful. They say they are, but we all know better. The lying that comes from the Trump cultists takes that truism an illogical step further.

Accuse me of being naive if you wish. I will declare right here that I want the lying to stop and I will express the hope that my wish will come true.

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