Can Americans Inhabit Parallel Political Universes Without Compromising Freedom?

[rangerrebew]

Can Americans Inhabit Parallel Political Universes Without Compromising Freedom?

Some Trump supporters find it easier to believe that every major American institution is potentially corrupt than to think that a president with a history of telling whoppers is being dishonest again.

Steven Greenhut | 12.11.2020 8:00 AM
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(Jason Bergman/Sipa USA/Newscom)

Last week, I argued that President Donald Trump's own behavior—rather than a vast nationwide voter-fraud conspiracy—caused his election defeat. I'm used to all types of angry responses (and even had ones over the years that required police intervention), but many of the responses have left me more fearful about the nation's future than I've been in a while.

The comments' tenor were not the problem. Almost everyone who contacted me was remarkably civil, including those who believe that yours truly is a blithering idiot. Differences of opinion are what makes the world go round, but I am worried about the vast differences in the sources that people rely upon—and by the fundamental lack of trust that many people have in the nation's institutions.

https://reason.com/2020/12/11/can-americans-inhabit-parallel-political-universes-without-compromising-freedom/

[Cyber Liberty]

Typical of Reason.  A long word salad that does nothing to support the headline.  In the end, the author concludes that anybody who thinks the 2020 election was stolen is a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.

Taking a stab at fulfilling the promise of the headline, I say there are "parallel universes" at work here, and the problem is one of them wants to conquer all the others and force the inhabitants into slavery.