Fiction in the White House

Hannah Arendt observed that fiction requires no rules or accountability. She said that "actuality...depends...upon...the nontotalitarian world." From her book about totalitarianism, I apply this statement to the present occupiers of the White House. What does Hannah mean? Having studied Communist Russia, she notes that if nothing is real, if reality is merely a continuous lie or deception, truthtellers have no chance to be heard. Totalitarianism has no rules; all is flux and expediency to further its ends. The amorphous replaces truth rooted in fact. I like to sum this sad state of affairs up by simply saying, "Liberals lie." Without a totalitarian regime, without a dictatorship of the liberal mindset, citizens would be free, but as it is in the dream world of Obama, anything goes.