Free societies show signs of deterioration that make them vulnerable. Democracy does not resist lies. Falsehood has become a kind of ingenuity that lies in locating it on a border terrain and refuge between belief, dogma, suspicion and phlegm. Lying with poise and rennet and resisting impatient and patient refutation has been a virtue. Churches and separatists introduced sophistry and deception into the public space. The effect is devastating: it contaminates and perverts reasoned discussion, leads to relativism, blurs institutions and generates polarization. Sánchez solemnized the falsehood with the

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