The first problem is agreement on facts. For example, the following are questioned and dismissed by large numbers of opinion pages in the WSJ and other Murdoch

The first problem is agreement on facts. For example, the following are questioned and dismissed by large numbers of opinion pages in the WSJ and other Murdoch papers and media outlets: * Is COVID a pandemic? * Is climate change happening at a rate that is unprecedented in archeological and geological time? * Is that climate change due to human activities? Let alone ridiculous assertions like claiming that the Democratic party in the US espouses "socialist" policies or that the GOP party has "fiscal conservatism" as an underlying principle.