This Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s Buffy Sainte-Marie documentary convinced me that she’s the most famous of the growing legion of Pretendians, the clever name given to people who falsely claim to be indigenous.

A lot of people are mad at the CBC, but their argument is not angry or mean-spirited, it’s relentlessly thorough and thoughtful, a model of investigative reporting.

This preemptive salvo Sainte-Marie penned wreaks of desperation to keep her house of cards from completely crumbling.

Alternatively, Sainte-Marie’s title, “My Truth As I Know It” may have been “My Truth As I Psychologically Need It To Be”. “My Truth As I Know It” is the quintessential phrase of our time. Just like Sainte-Marie and the many other Pretendians, Trump acolytes still talk about the 2020 election results as “the truth as they know it”. And that of course, is the tip of the conspiratorial iceburg.

Trump and his acolytes went 0-60 on legal challenges to the 2020 election results. Judge after judge said this is “the actual truth” of the matter. Objectively. All those judges, so old fashioned.

For over sixty years, Sainte-Marie has woven such an elaborate web of lies that she was unable to title her defense, “The Truth”.

Even at 82 years old, Sainte-Marie is a woman for our times where masses of people spew the truth as only they, and their gullible fellow travelers, know it.