I'm sure Bill Moyers wouldn't go as far as I do in what we have to do in disabling lies and the lying liars who lie them. Mere refutation isn't enough, if it were we wouldn't have had the last 55 years that we have had, if merely discrediting them were - well, lies are generally a lot more attractive and seductive than the truth, the truth is a harder sell.
With all due respect to Bill Moyers, it didn't all begin with Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, it's been going on a long time before that. I think that's a truth that Bill Moyers has yet to face.
If you enable lies and liars through the slogans of "free speech and free press" then what you're doing is empowering them, advantaging them over the truth. The hardest lesson of the last fifty years, ever accelerating in the new century is that the truth - in so far as human consciousness and acceptance of it - is far weaker than seductively told and sold lies. The hard part of the truth is in its consequences, especially when the price of buying those attractive lies comes in and they come in for us all, the liars, the truth tellers, those who went with the lies, those who held with the truth. We don't owe that price to the liars and the idiots who claim to love the truth even as they empower the worst liars. We sure as hell don't owe Mark Zuckerberg anything but maybe a full investigation, a breaking up of his companies and making what he's done illegal, the media through which he helped bring Trump to power for his profit, regulated to prevent it.
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