Commentary.

“Perception is reality” is a phrase created by political consultant, Lee Atwater back in the 1980’s. In a nutshell, it means don’t worry about the facts. If you can get people to believe something it becomes a “de facto” fact.

Our neighbors, Lashley and Joyce, have laughed with us over the years about how when we first moved to our farm in mid-Missouri almost 20 years ago, many people assumed because we were not from there, we must be city folks.

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