I saw an interview of Chicago’s Interim Police Chief, Charlie Beck, on WTTW, January 15. He said if he caught a cop lying he would fire him because the justice system is based on cops telling the truth.

Journalists are fired for not telling the truth. The military academies and many colleges oust students who do not tell the truth – violating the honor code. Many professions have a code of conduct which requires them to tell the truth. Real estate is one requiring truth and violations could cost the realtor their license if someone turned them in.

A comic strip last week used the term “post truth” to explain why people were lying without regard to any consideration of the truth. The age of “post truth” seems to have started during the 2016 campaign when Donald Trump seldom told the truth and people, in particular the media, didn’t say it wasn’t true. After he became President, a bi-partisan organization would say he has veered from the truth over 14,000 times. Some of those lies were extremely important and caused millions of people to go off the normal rails.

School children and their parents, according to polls; have started to lie as a part of their daily life. Isn’t it sad that one person has been able to change the culture of our country into one where bullying and lying is acceptable. Sad isn’t it?