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Today’s society is the natural result of post-modernism. When nobody can know what is true - about ANYTHING - the only response to life, truth, lies... is “meh”. People can make up their own realities because perception is everything in our world.

The arguments made have little to do with sound facts or reasoning and more to do with what people want to believe. It’s a problem in our churches, in our schools and colleges, in our government, in our social media, and in our forums. The basic epistemology is not evidence-based, and that will always help the groups that are not based in reality, which also happen to be America’s sworn enemies: communists and Islamists. The more “conservatives” try to fight falsehoods with more falsehoods, the more the vicious circle spins to its natural conclusion. The process of sorting out the truth means a lot, and whenever we abort the process because we fear the ultimate conclusions, the more we seal the fate of this society and nation.

Neither Trump nor Cruz, nor Congress, nor Supreme Court, nor DOJ, etc can destroy this nation. Only the people of America can destroy this nation. And sometimes in the name of politics, we’re doing precisely that because our process of sorting out the truth is absolutely broken.

Case in point: once I hit “post” I have to wait to see if the moderators think my words are OK to be heard. The process of sorting out the truth doesn’t matter because it’s not HOW we think but WHAT we think that matters. The very thing we accuse teachers’ indoctrination of doing is what “conservatives” themselves do. And it feeds into that vicious circle that the nation is swirling in before finally being flushed.