{"id":151,"date":"2017-03-28T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/?p=151"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:27:29","slug":"post-truth-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/post-truth-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-truth politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-truth_politics\"><b>Post-truth politics<\/b><\/a> (also called <b>post-factual politics<\/b>) is a <a title=\"Political culture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_culture\">political culture<\/a> in which debate is framed largely by <a title=\"Appeal to emotion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appeal_to_emotion\">appeals to emotion<\/a> disconnected from the details of <a title=\"Public policy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_policy\">policy<\/a>, and by the repeated assertion of <a title=\"Talking point\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talking_point\">talking points<\/a> to which factual rebuttals are ignored.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16 November 2016, Oxford, UK:\u00a0<\/strong>Today, Oxford Dictionaries announces<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/post-truth\"><strong><em>post-truth<\/em><\/strong><\/a> as its 2016 international <a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/word-of-the-year-2016\">Word of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphkeyes.com\/the-post-truth-era\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"The Post-Truth Era\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphkeyes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cover-post-truth-200.jpg\" alt=\"The Post-Truth Era\" width=\"200\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Post-Truth Era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At one time we had truth and lies. Now we have truth, lies, and statements that may not be true but we consider too benign to call false. Euphemisms abound. We\u2019re \u201ceconomical with the truth,\u201d we \u201csweeten it,\u201d or tell \u201cthe truth improved.\u201d The term<em> deceive<\/em> gives way to <em>spin<\/em>.\u00a0 At worst we admit to \u201cmisspeaking,\u201d or \u201cexercising poor judgment.\u201d\u00a0 Nor do we want to accuse others of lying.\u00a0 We say they\u2019re in denial.\u00a0 A liar is \u201cethically challenged,\u201d someone for whom \u201cthe truth is temporarily unavailable.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ralph Keyes will have to add &#8220;Alternative Facts&#8221; to his list of truth and lies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-truth politics (also called post-factual politics) is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored. 16 November 2016, Oxford, UK:\u00a0Today, Oxford Dictionaries announces\u00a0post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/post-truth-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Post-truth politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-lies","category-truth"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}