Wobby On The Truth

When we as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth even on what may seem the most trivial of matters, we go wobbly on America.

If our leaders seek to conceal the truth and we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then as an American people we are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.

If we do not as Americans confront the crisis of ethics and integrity in our society and among our leaders in both private and public sector, and regrettably at times even the nonprofit sector, then American democracy as we know it is entering its twilight years.

-- Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaking to the graduating class of cadets at the Virginia Military Institute, 16 May 2018