re: #238 Killgore Trout

I try. In the past I’ve been misled by both sides. I’m trying to be smarter these days.

You may be applying the exact same skepticism to “both sides”, but maybe the mistake is seeing things as “sides” and not discrete phenomena to be evaluated on their own terms. To take the example of the Democratic and Republican parties, it’s hard not to see them as two equivalent, opposed sides of one thing, but that doesn’t mean they are equivalent. This would be more clear if we had more than two viable parties.

There is a real difference between the Democratic and Republican parties in terms of their relationship to the truth, and not just in the presidential race. The difference is one of scale, as implied in H G-T’s #255. If you don’t recognize it, you don’t get smarter.