I'm afraid of Trump, but some of the hyperbole here is really not helpful

[herding cats]

71. I can't help but find any credibility argument adorable.

Seriously, you're worried about credibility, now, in this political climate? We have a person about to be presient who lies, daily, on Twitter. A person who embraces Alex Fucking Jones, and has Brannon, from breitbart as one of his trusted advisers.

Pizzagate, Benghazi, emails and Birtherism won the day, and we have to be credible? We actually lost voters to bullshit fake news propaganda, but we have to be careful? We had fake news propaganda being spread as gospel here on DU, and people were eating it up. Some, still do for that matter. But, we have to raise the bar?! Are you kidding me, or have you been in a coma for the past 8 years? This isn't your old internet from back in the early 2000's anymore. It's ugly, and clannish. It's full of lies, and disinformation being taken for truth. That's the new normal. If it fits your ideological bend, it will be served up to you as fact. Would you like fries with that? <--- this is who America is right now, and they're currently embracing this lunacy.

Have you seen some of the insane shit that's now taken as fact on the internet? But we're supposed to be better than that? Wake up call... this is the new normal. Yes, it's disgusting, it sucks, and I, personally, hate it, but it's what we are as a nation now. At least at this moment. We either evolve to counter it, or we don't.

I get where you're coming from, but I'm perplexed as to how you think your words are relevant in this era. Unless you have some brilliant bit of wisdom to share as to how we, collectively, end this insanity, you're in the same boat as the rest of us. Adrift in a sea of modern propaganda, trying to navigate these foreign seas.