In the November 15, 2020 Telegraph there was a letter to the editor that boggled my mind – the writer was claiming that BLM and Antifa have cost taxpayers billions of dollars for riot damage, that Democrat-led cities are begging for relief because of mismanagement, that dead people voted, that … you get the point. There’s so much mis-information out there these days. Whatever happened to logic, reasoning, and people’s belief in factual news outlets?

An NPR reporter was in Iowa before the election, asking ‘man in the street (and women in the street)’ questions about their views on the election and current events. Several replied that “Well, you have your truths and I have mine!” When did this country go so far off the rails with respect to universal truth?

It used to be that journalists, like those at the Telegraph, needed to have three independent confirming sources for a story before the editor would publish it. These days, Fox News and an unthinkable number of conspiracy theorists, just make stuff up and ‘publish it’ to push their agenda. Worse, many people digest this drivel as gospel. Whatever happened to an informed population?

Many think this is funny and OK, but it’s not. One terrible example is the fact that COVID-19 cases are spiking in all of the counties that Trump won in the past election. Their disregard for basic public health by listening and believing in all of this misinformation is costing them their lives! We have to get back to logic, reasoned, fact-based discourse in this country. An informed populace starts with all of us – vet your news and information sources. Listen to tried and trusted sources, not fly-by-night conspiracy theorists. Make America Think Again!

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