{"id":226340,"date":"2026-05-16T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226340"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:56:31","slug":"behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226340","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Curtain: The big lie warping America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch TV, scroll social media or listen to politicians, and the verdict seems clear: Americans are hopelessly divided and increasingly hateful.It&#8217;s a ubiquitous, emphatic, verifiable &#8230; lie.Why it matters: Most Americans are too busy for social media, too normal for politics, too rational to tweet. They work&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/11\/america-social-media-polarization\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch TV, scroll social media or listen to politicians, and the verdict seems clear: Americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america-300x300.jpeg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226340-behind-the-curtain-the-big-lie-warping-america.jpeg",320,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}