Think about this…some people will often tell lies. For example, 50% of elected Politicians tell a lie at least once per day.
Then again, some people lie so much to the point they began to believe the lies themselves. I can name people that can lie to you with a straight face.
Seemingly, some lies are often of less importance.
Yet, other lies can have more denigrating consequences, such as those told by a former US President over a lost election and criminal suspects about criminal charges pending.
Consider far-right conspiracy theorist spreading garbage such as this
“You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star,” Greene said as Brody, a right-wing commentator, nodded in sage agreement. “And they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Despite the apparent generality of lie-telling within our society, lying is a complicated behavior that requires breaking the standard communication rules.
Whenever a liar decides not to tell the truth and then assert an alternative statement that is plausible and appears informative to the listener while concealing any outward signs of nervousness, such a matter-of-fact feat requires thought processes in addition to those used when telling the truth.
Liar intends to instill a false belief in another’s mind but is more interested in the cognitive processes associated with making a statement that is not true.
When someone tells the truth or constructs a falsehood, the processes will have some common aspects regardless of the situation. It takes time to become a master of lying and twisting the truth into the lie, which waters down the fact’s basic.
Telling the truth is very difficult for a compulsive liar to do. While the need to suppress the truth is undeniably an essential component of why lying is more complex than telling the truth.
Therefore, the decision to lie is likely to require a cognitive process associated with lying that takes time to execute.
Such as this
“The anti-democratic conspiracy theory [that Trump will be “reinstated” as president] has been bubbling up in fringe conservative media for several months. It has no basis under the Constitution or any legitimate legal framework.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been a prominent proponent of the theory. The former Trump attorney Sidney Powell also floated the idea at a QAnon conference over the weekend.
The anticipation of a Trump reinstatement on a specific date could spread further among the most dedicated Trump supporters. The calls to help overturn the 2020 election on January 6, for example, gained steam through a pro-Trump bus tour by a fringe group and led to the insurrection at the Capitol.
Lindell has said August is when he would go to the Supreme Court to present evidence he’s acquired that would be so convincing that the justices would be forced to reject the 2020 election result.
A podcast from the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has amplified the conspiracy theory, as Lindell and others have gone on the show to promote it with minimal pushback.
The podcast is influential among GOP lawmakers hoping to avoid a primary challenge while seeking reelection. Trump’s lawyers and other Republicans filed dozens of lawsuits related to the election.
People tend to embrace information that supports their beliefs and rejects information that contradicts them. For instance, Liddell, Bannon, and Powell require more information to accept an undesirable idea than a desirable one.
After Thoughts
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Parable of the Talents
| Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201708/the-many-ways-we-lie-ourselves