Truth Decay - a 'Murican specialty

Barack Obama: One election won't stop US 'truth decay' .

The US faces a huge task in reversing a culture of "crazy conspiracy theories" that have exacerbated divides in the country, Barack Obama says. In a BBC interview, the former president says the US is more sharply split than even four years ago, when (using the USA's foolish electoral process) LIAR-in-Cheat won stole the presidency.

Obama suggests Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 US election is just the start of repairing those divisions. "It'll take more than one election to reverse those trends," he says. Tackling a polarised nation, he argues, cannot be left only to the decisions of politicians, but also requires both structural change and people listening to one another - agreeing on a "common set of facts" before arguing what to do about them.

However he says he sees "great hope" in the "sophisticated" attitudes of the next generation [apparently, Obama is not aware of "woke" fallacies], urging young people to "cultivate that cautious optimism that the world can change" and "to be a part of that change".

[Town versus Clown] Anger and resentment between rural and urban America, immigration, injustices like inequality and "the kinds of crazy conspiracy theories - what some have called truth decay" have been amplified by some US media outlets and "turbocharged by social media".