“…during a legislative hearing last month in Tennessee, two Republican state lawmakers discussed the ‘growing crisis’ of public schools providing litter boxes f

“…during a legislative hearing last month in Tennessee, two Republican state lawmakers discussed the ‘growing crisis’ of public schools providing litter boxes for children who identify as cats, and claimed it’s happening across the state.” How did it happen that a substantial section of the American public is so entirely divorced from their community’s reality that they could believe for a second that public schools in Tennessee(!) are doing this? Wannabe politicians presumably have been tempted by outrageous lies forever, but to be effective they require an audience already primed to believe anything, preferably with no connection to everyday issues like what American public schools are actually like. Who are these people? Retirees that spend too much time on social media?