Aug 31, 2015
Dr. Drang is able to shed light on what has been bothering me about this election pre-season. It's not that Donald Trump is a liar, it's that he's a bullshitter, and that subtle but important distinction makes all the difference.
Dr. Drang quotes from Harry Frankfurt:
When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false.