In short, people can quibble over the semantics of clinical diagnoses. Yet, there is no doubt that a huge number of Americans (and people all over the world) are no longer able to make rational risk assessments because their leaders have refused to be honest with them. Instead, the thirst for power and a desire to avoid political responsibility for failure has overtaken all. So the AP can call that phenomenon whatever they’d like, but it’s absolutely a real problem, and it’s one that a nation like the United States is going to have to figure out a way to solve before our society dives off the cliff.