On 6/4/2021 9:33 PM, John B. wrote:

The, perhaps horrifying, question then becomes are you, or is Tom the
"typical American"? Or to phrase it another way, "has the U.S. become
a nation where unsupported "tweets" have become the truth"?

There's certainly been a devaluing of objective truth. That's occurring
to at least some degree on both sides of the political spectrum, and
probably on various other spectra.

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- Frank Krygowski