Alan: I have assembled the following post, based on the work of Hannah Arendt and Carl Sagan, to cut to the quick of the deadly-toxic affect of conspiratorial thinking (and other epistemological chaos) on Democracy.
Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details
Excerpt (from the Kinzinger interview below): "I think there's a lot of people that don't necessarily understand what martial law is. They know it basically sounds ominous. Martial law is basically the federal military coming in and suspending the authority of state or local governments." "The problem is so much misinformation is thrown out constantly that you lose track of what you ever believed. You forget if anything's ever debunked and you're always on to the next piece of misinformation to the point where you believe, somehow on January 6th, the U.S. Congress can overthrow the results of an election."
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