Do they know they are lying

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Kadizzle has had more than his fair share of encounters with Republicans, and each one seems to follow the same predictable pattern. Too often, their words sprout lies the way mushrooms pop up after a rainstorm—suddenly, everywhere, and impossible to ignore.

One encounter in particular still amazes Kadizzle. A high-ranking local Republican, a man who prided himself on his status in the community, had no problem lying under oath. With a straight face, without hesitation, he told a courtroom full of people that Kadizzle spit on him. It was pure fiction, conjured out of thin air, yet delivered with the confidence of someone reciting the multiplication tables. What was most shocking wasn’t the lie itself, but the ease with which he told it. For this man, lying seemed as natural as breathing. It was stitched into his very biology, a reflex rather than a choice.

And it doesn’t stop there. Recently, Kadizzle had yet another encounter with a fabricator—another man who simply made things up as though reality were a flexible toy he could twist into any shape that served his purpose. The casualness of it was the most disturbing part. There was no pause, no flicker of doubt, no awareness that he had crossed a moral line. He just said it, and once it left his mouth, it was as though the lie transformed instantly into his truth.

Which raises the unsettling question: do these people even know they’re lying anymore? Or have they repeated their distortions so often that the lies have hardened into their reality? It’s almost as if they live in a parallel world, one where facts are negotiable, memory is plastic, and truth is whatever helps them win the moment.

Kadizzle can’t help but wonder: is this deliberate deceit, or is it something deeper—an inability to distinguish between what is and what they wish were true? Either way, the result is the same. A society built on falsehoods cannot function, yet we are asked, again and again, to take these people seriously.

Maybe that’s the real danger. Not just that they lie—but that they’ve built an entire ecosystem where the lie feels more solid than the truth.

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