re: #282 Blind Frog Belly White

I consider those more of a symptom than a cause, which is the unmooring of a large segment of the population from shared reality. Perfect example is just how quickly the term ‘Fake News’ - originally created to describe stories that were completely made up, with no basis in reality- got applied to actual news organizations.

This goes back to a view that there are Larger Truths: Obama is a Muslim, Hillary is a criminal, both are traitors, Christmas is under attack, etc., so that anything that reflects that Higher Truth is viable in its own right, even if it is not corroborated by any objective facts.