January 18, 2017 at 12:18AM
"The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy seems to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable." #readingToday

The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable. A large and growing number of Americans are asking out loud: "What has happened to our country?" More and more people are trying to figure out what has gone wrong in our democracy, and how we can fix it.

The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore

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