and I'm not sure reality can stand it and as knowledge is the cornerstone of democracy, I'm not sure democracy can stand it either.
Rewriting history is not new but the internet has provided a whole other level. There's now a complete whole parallel Universe which has not only its own facts but its own fact checking as conservative media, in the service of the Trump campaign, has apparently convinced 88% of Trump supporters feel that news orgs skew the facts. Kerry was swiftboated to make his service, complete with purple heart, seem fraudulent and cowardly compared to W. who couldn't be bothered to show up for his national guard duties, but the Trump campaign's firehose of mendacious lies and BS does it about the present in real time on a literally and intentionally mind boggling scale. Trump's campaign changes stories in real time and does it with such forcefulness and resolve that it makes many doubt reality. It seems that the idea is to bobble people's minds so completely that you can sell them anything. (Something that Trump has done all his life, e.g. Trump "U")
The other day, I had a thread with a Trump supporter and the topic of Trump's assertion that Hillary started Birtherism came up. I pointed him to a fact checking service that gave a detailed provenance of Birtherism disproving the assertion. The response was that fact checking was in the can for Hillary and not just one of them, all of them.
Daniel Moynihan once said, "You're entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts." but apparently that's no longer true. I'm not sure how we climb down from here. This has been getting worse every election cycle. The Internet has created a disinformation bubble that gets bigger and harder every year. It's hard to imagine what the next one will be like.
ここには何もないようです