Truth Commission: Lessons in Propaganda, by Thomas Griffin

By Thomas Griffin, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 10, 2021

Thomas Griffin teaches apologetics in the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island. Read more at www.EmptyTombProject.org.

“At the bottom of their hearts the great masses of people are more likely to be poisoned than to be consciously and deliberately bad. In the primitive simplicity of their minds they are more easily victimized by a large lie than by a small lie.” The author of these chilling words: Adolf Hitler.

President Biden, in his inaugural address, promised that he will fight against the lies and stand by the truth while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others are moving to initiate a “truth commission” to monitor the massive lies in the media. However, what we really need to fight against is propaganda—the most dangerous tool of any government. Its latest form is the labelling of anything the current administration disagrees with as “disinformation” or the result of conspiracy theories.  …