Reality is not helping. An alarming percentage of people in the USA are extremely insulated from reality. They are even insulated from pure logic. For a great many people it seems completely consistent to say that the federal government is a swamp of corruption and bureaucracy that requires drastic action to bring it back in check, then also say that we should do whatever it takes to put the management of the Panama Canal back into the hands of that same government.

I just listened to Trump say, "You're playing cards with the lives of millions of people. You're playing cards with WWIII. I am forcing you to play cards because you made a campaign appearance for a different candidate." I was dumbfounded. Then I looked around at all the people nodding their heads and saying, "Right on!"

Some people think that "reality" TV is reality. And some people think that reality is just another TV show. What a world when you put the word "real" in front of the word "reality" to try to differentiate it: real reality. The spinning top trick doesn't work.