Jan 9, 2023
OPINION The strange case of Rep.-elect George Santos highlights the tendency of politicians to "embellish their resumes" - otherwise known as lying. Among Mr. Santos' falsehoods are the claims that he went to Yale, worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and has Jewish ancestry. Then there's President Biden, who (among a long list of tall tales told over a 50-year career) lied about his undistinguished academic record, being arrested in South Africa during apartheid and being "sorta raised" in a Puerto Rican community. He did watch a lot of "West Side Story" and tried to copy Chita Rivera's dance moves. Reprehensible as all of this is, the politicians you really have to worry about are the ones who can't tell the difference between truth and lies. A thoroughgoing denial of reality is the essence of woke-ism. Speaking of the New Left takeover of academia in the 1960s, liberal-turned-conservative cartoonist Al Capp remarked, "The inmates