Everyone is going to miss Pax Americana when it’s gone. The ones who aren’t killed in this or that genocide, that is.

The right believes the healthcare CEO shooting suspect is a ‘liberal wacko’. The truth is complicated. Fox News and rightwing pundits are railing against ‘Marxist brutality’, but the suspect’s beliefs were far from leftist.

Mangione mostly held center-right views. Rare these days as a political type but them’s the facts. Not that a single person alive seems to care about what is and is not a fact anymore.

I’ve seen a whole damn lot of that bizarre pretending. Also goes along with the “only white protestants can be colonialist and no one else” casuistry. Most people just fundamentally do not live in reality and care nothing for the actual facts.

Trump didn’t win just because of white voters. He didn’t win because all the rich people voted for him, he won because the working class shifted toward him. Trump won because an incredibly diverse electorate voted for him.

Yep. Many liberals are now completely lying about this, but it’s true. I saw Heather Cox Richardson just today completely making up false data and using utterly-transparent fabrications to justify why the win was all the fault of straight white men. The reality, though, is that only a few small demographics shifted away from Trump. Every other American group went Trump-ward — including black men, Native Americans and most of all, Latinos.

The liberal deniers of this sound just as clown-ass as the election-denying MAGA types. And will be even less effective. And I say this as someone who believes that Trump 2 will bring about the most disastrous era this country has seen since the Civil War. It’s just that I prefer to deal with the world as it is — uncomfortable facts and all — rather than whip up some absolute nonsense to reinforce my worldview.

You don’t win that way. And you aren’t right, which is even more important to me personally to be completely honest.

Oopsie!

(Steve Urkel voice) “Did I do that?”

The next four years are gonna be some of the craziest shit most of y’all have ever seen. I’ve already lived in some places that are a bit unhinged so I’ve seen some things.

But you have no idea what’s about to hit. Just wait till it does and then think of me. The crazy train is leaving the station. Destination: Bedlam and Breakdown.

Yeah, that’s about the size of it.

I don’t know what you do about a country where millions of people believe things that are factually untrue. That aren’t even close to reality.

We’re not talking about opinions here. I mean things like: vaccines are safe and effective. This is a scientific fact beyond question — as much as anything can be. There are thousands of reliable studies of this. Millions and millions of observable outcomes. But that doesn’t matter to people’s feelings about it.

This phenomenon of not believing clearly-demonstrated facts is not unique to the right, of course. They have no monopoly, but certainly the majority of the worst of being fact-proof is now on that side.

There probably is no actual solution to this. Just me grousing. Getting rid of Fox News and similar would help, but even that would only put a small dent in the problem.