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Hi Ned, nicely put. Do you ever also feel a sense of liberation from transcending a mistruth? I think I have.

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No, more a sense of sadness. Many of the ideals I originally believed in were worthwhile and inspiring. For me, there was no sense of liberation in finding out that I had been fooled, that I had been played.

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it is a bit like losing a friend. there might be some kind of shock -how did this happen- and then sadness, mourning, maybe even depression. And then slowly getting out of the hole we fell in and find that life is still worth living even with the loss

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Beautifully stated, Ingrid.

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How terrible it is that only the masses must hold to ideals and try to be law-abiding, civil, and compassionate? Meanwhile power plays sleight-of-hand and pretends to do the same. But they are less able and perhaps even less interested in continuing the magic show. Hope it's not too late to see the charlatans off the stage. Nevertheless, for me at least, things make more sense when I am able to challenge the dominant and strategic version of 'truth.' Sad too, but somehow freer.

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For me—more a sense of frustration because people would rather believe a comfortable lie than face the hard truth: THE AMERICA we believed in no longer her exists…Now…the years of had cleanup to get back to LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

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