I sincerely appreciate the opportunities that The Point Magazine provides for listening to a genuine diversity of perspectives. This essay is a great example of that much needed diversity. However, I can’t help but feel that these articles that revolve around questions about the errors of the Democratic Party over the last decade have entirely missed the boat. The single, glaring issue from the 2024 election is that we now live in a Post-truth (lowercase t) Society. Forget great metaphysical claims to Truth. We can’t even agree to accept the truth of facts, such as the claim that decades of vaccines have saved billions of lives. The disappearance of the truth of facts from social and political discourse ought to be the centerpiece of our reflections on the state of the Democratic Party. It won’t matter what the pollsters are telling us if there is no common agreement to what will count as a truth of fact. As long as major news organizations are allowed to undermine the reliability of basic factual truth claims, a “political” discussion of immigration conditions and policies is a farce.
I sincerely appreciate the opportunities that The Point Magazine provides for listening to a genuine diversity of perspectives. This essay is a great example of that much needed diversity. However, I can’t help but feel that these articles that revolve around questions about the errors of the Democratic Party over the last decade have entirely missed the boat. The single, glaring issue from the 2024 election is that we now live in a Post-truth (lowercase t) Society. Forget great metaphysical claims to Truth. We can’t even agree to accept the truth of facts, such as the claim that decades of vaccines have saved billions of lives. The disappearance of the truth of facts from social and political discourse ought to be the centerpiece of our reflections on the state of the Democratic Party. It won’t matter what the pollsters are telling us if there is no common agreement to what will count as a truth of fact. As long as major news organizations are allowed to undermine the reliability of basic factual truth claims, a “political” discussion of immigration conditions and policies is a farce.