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This general (partisan) direction of Truthiness & losing trust in media institutions worries me more that most ills of the US today, since I have trouble envisioning how it unwinds itself..
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I agree that this is a huge issue. Combine it with a growing view that elites (anyone well educated) is not to be trusted and that science is not to be trusted and you have a recipe for ignorance and superstition. (So much for the ideals of the enlightenment.) Combine this with a distrust for government and the institutions that allow us to have a democracy, and it gets pretty scary.
I know that many of us like to talk about the evils of government, but it’s important to remember that without government there would be lawlessness and criminal gangs running things. Not a better choice to be honest.
