Bernie Sanders breaks it all down.

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120. We all need to inform ourselves as if we had no partisan loyalties

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that allow us to believe our chosen leaders will speak truth and that disagreement by others proves them wrong. Belief about reality and facts shouldn't be based on faith, secular-political or religious. Anything else risks a downward spiral to factional idiocy and even self radicalization. As we all are witnesses to.

Questionseverything, my experience is that those who do question everything routinely educate themselves far better than most. They are able respond to discussion with reliable information. In contrast are those already mentioned. Since you asked, I will point you casually to Vox's survey article on this bill for a start. Vox, which claims its mission is "explaining the news," is of course not the nonexistent one true source of truth. But is could be a quick check for discovering things Sanders may not mention and ways in which their analysis strongly disagrees. To be pursued with further information seeking.

Of course Sanders himself has his own ideas about what truth is and is very proud that his viewpoints are outliers. Far from denying it, he's spent his entire life believing even the best of mainstream political thinking, including that of liberal Democrats, is wrong -- and saying so all the time.

But it's critical to admit that all the generally best respected experts normally disagree with Sanders on at very least some important aspects, and again -- very important for those who want to be knowledgeable contributors to the solutions to our problems: Sanders frequently chooses not to mention aspects others consider indispensable to understanding. It's great if learning is stimulated by his statements, but it should not stop there.