Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.
If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.
Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U. S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.
His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t she?” “Don’t be silly. I was talking to my lover. ” “She told me she lives at a place called Brookdale. After I hung up, I did a little research on the Web. Your talent for obfuscation continues to amaze me. ” “Hey, I haven’t obfuscated in weeks. Makes you go blind.
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society, a convenient rhetorical obfuscation that allows white Americans to ignore the institutional and individual racist ideologies, practices and policies that cripple any viable notion of justice and democracy.
