The denial of demonstrable, factive reality among Dems/liberals right now is as bad as any right-wing fever dream. Epistemological collapse.
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Replying to @mtracey
the loyalists of both camps are choosing their own facts. It's what happens. Ideology is a thing.
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Replying to @SamAdlerBell
It's gotten utterly hallucinatory among Dems. Never seen it this bad, ever.
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Replying to @mtracey
I appreciate that you hold them to a higher standard. So do I. But you are. Holding them to a higher standard.
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Replying to @SamAdlerBell
Because that's what I'm focusing on at the moment. And they have a phony pretense of championing empiricism and facts.
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Replying to @mtracey
whereas the GOP makes no pretense of being attached to facts? Faint praise.
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Replying to @SamAdlerBell @mtracey
let's be clear: we agree that central tenets of Trump's campaign—that crime & immigration are getting worse—are false, yes?
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Replying to @SamAdlerBell
That's been going on for 1.5 years -- I'm talking about developments in just the past week.
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Replying to @mtracey
I understand. But you agree that it is false (on net) that immigration is growing or crime is getting worse, yes?
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Replying to @SamAdlerBell @mtracey
I'm not trolling you. I think it's important that your followers understand that you believe these things to be false. (If you do.)
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Violent crime is at historic lows save for some recent upticks in select cities.
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