> It is important to realize that even as we disagreed, we still used to agree on basic facts and then fought over what best to do next.

What are these basic facts that people used to agree on, but now don't agree on anymore?

Election results come to mind.

Wikipedia has a list of controversial elections in the US[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversial_election...

I know a lot of people who believe Gore won and that Bush stole the election. This is nothing new.

Tons of people in Florida with the same name as felons were purged right before the election. Those people were overwhelmingly black and likely to vote for gore. I think hardly anyone says that’s a stolen election, but it’s definitely a bit suspect. As far as I can tell there isn’t really any reason to claim 2020 was stolen, it’s 100% bs. No one was disenfranchised, although the house republicans tried to disenfranchise the entire state of Arizona on January 6th.

My entire family thinks 2000 was stolen and you at least slightly agree. These claims are not new to American democracy.

But who is disagreeing on facts? Stolen is an opinion about whether the purge qualifies or not. The 2020 deniers have no fact based claim at all.

Vaccine science

Anti-vaxxers have existed for as long as vaccines[1].

[1]: https://historyofvaccines.org/vaccines-101/misconceptions-ab...

So what is the solution? Will left wing leaders and role models start accepting facts? Or listening when facts are being presented to them? I think this is a time where Obama could become a truly great leader by setting an example to the left wing culture that they can't make up the truth, and they have to listen to the other side when they are presenting facts.

Any other way to solve this crisis? How do we reach younger Democrats to convince them that this culture is creating a dangerous time period?

bruh what? why did you bring the democratic party and obama into this?

I didn't bring democratic party into this. The GP was clearly talking about the left wing in the US.

Funny stuff. You have a significant portion of Republicans believing in an anonymous Q-clearance government official who's fighting the "deep state" by posting on 8chan but it turns out it's the Democrats who have lost touch with reality.

Honestly the 1700s and 1800s were far worse in terms of both misinformation and mob violence than what we are going through now. Look at what happened to Andrew Jackson's wife, for example.

There was no golden age where everyone agreed on the same basic set of facts.

Was anybody beaten for solipsism?