We are entering a dark age of fake news, phony facts, and false history.

It has long been known that truth is the first casualty of war. Recently, truth has become the first casualty of partisan politics. And it’s getting worse, as both sides move away from the center and toward the extreme right and extreme left.

The history of extremism is the history of abusing truth in the interest of ideology. Every extreme selects the “Truth” that justifies its ideology and creates facts to support that “Truth.” The objectivity of science is seen as the enemy, unless it produces facts favorable to the cause. Extremists not only blind themselves to unfavorable facts, they take steps to assure that these facts are suppressed, censored, and shouted down.

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