alternative reality. where people could believe that vaccines don t work and masks don t work. people can believe that donald trump actually won the election. people can believe that chain climate change is not real or man-made. and that is what we are contending with. this is not about differences of opinion about policy. it is about people living in an alternative reality. and i think what we have to get our arms around is how social media and technology is exacerbating the spread of conspiracy theories. when you have one major political party that is fine with that, because that actually feels that because it serves their own interests, we have a big problem. and we are not going to get our our arms around that problem until we get our arms around the platforms that spread disinformation and conspiracy theories. that allow for foreign actors like russia to come in and poor gasoline on the fires that have already been started by the right wing in this country. until we get our arms a