OPINION | How can a nation have meaning, purpose, and a shared national story when we can’t even agree on what constitutes reality?
What if immediately after Pearl Harbor, half the country decided it didn’t really happen—and the people who said they saw it were ‘crisis actors’?Now, I’m not naive. The American public has been lied to in the past. And the police and the media sometimes simply get it wrong.
But what the right is now asking us to believe, in essence, is that we have no way of verifying or confirming thatis real. It’s possible Donald Trump is still the president. Maybe Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are really 8-0? It’s possible that I’m not really writing this. Maybe we are all living in the matrix?
We are now in a position where you either believe that the police and the media are conspiring to lie to you to help elect Democrats, or believe the owner of Twitter and the former president’s son are wrongly blaming the victim of a violent attack and lying to you to as a service to Republicans.
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