In the latest of a mind-numbing number of assaults on the free press and the don’t-believe-what-you-see-and-hear perceptions of the public at large we are being told to ignore truth and only believe what President Trump wants you to believe.

Trump stated earlier this month that you can’t believe what you are seeing with your own eyes, and you can’t believe what you are hearing with your own ears. You cannot trust any version of the truth except for the version of the truth that he says is the truth. The sky is not blue, up is down and night is really day because that is the Trump version of the truth. Actually the truth is not the truth, according to Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and facts are not facts, in that there are alternative facts, according to Trump’s counselor, Kellyanne Conway.

I have often wondered how Germany in the 1930s allowed a madman dictator to lead them to doom, how they looked away when they were told that lies are really the truth. Now I see how easy it is. Do not look for the truth. Follow blindly like the sheep that he believes you are. So many sheep.