Demanding the truth

I’m reading Arguing with Zombies by Paul Krugman.  Everyone should read it but that’s not why I am writing this. The point of this piece is to challenge all of us to demand the truth from policy analysts and politicians.  The facts instead of my truth, your truth.   Maybe the American public was never told the truth.  We certainly have had less access to it for decades. Is it the result of 24 /7  news cycles? Entertainment news? It doesn’t matter but somewhere along the way we lost our critical thinking. As a result pundits can spin the truth to suit their policy goals.  As a result we turn into sheep herded this way and that. The polarization is now obvious and the negotiations almost unheard of.Compromise? Hardly! 

What are we to do? We need to ask more questions.  The media has to vet what they say. We don’t need entertainment news.  We need facts and thoughtful discourse.  Let’s have the facts about health care. The post office.  Voter suppression. We at least need to have the discussion about truth and facts and about spin.