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> Our political system rewards lies and disinformation, and when a significant portion of the population believes these lies without any skepticism, then we're
by cr0sh 7y ago
> Our political system rewards lies and disinformation, and when a significant portion of the population believes these lies without any skepticism, then we're no longer debting rationally.
I know it's the topic under discussion, but today your statement applies to virtually everything under debate. We are in a very bad situation, that only seems to be spiralling downward, to what end is anyone's guess.
- save_ferris 7y agoNot to devolve the conversation into a partisan debate, but when you have the former speaker of the house telling a reporter that how people feel is as logically true as hard data, we have a problem. And it's not going away any time soon. https://youtu.be/LrerNmwpzHY?t=59 https://youtu.be/LrerNmwpzHY?t=59