Perhaps more than any other time in my life, this November the election is going to be decided by people with a basic grasp of facts vs. people who go by gut feeling or misinformation. Not sure there’s any other way to frame it that matters. 🇺🇸

@manton Agreed. A tragic theme of this century has been the debasing of truth and facts as things that are important and valuable. It's a trend that predates Trump, but, as with a bunch of other things (outright racism, xenophobia, intolerance), he's an accelerant that's turned smoldering embers into a conflagration.

@manton most of the people i know scare me. I keep having to talk people off the ledge about the #SolarEclipse2024 .

@manton That coupled by the dichotomy of people who want to have another election in 2028 and those who are actually kind of cool with having a dictator.

@sergio_101 Wait, there are conspiracies about the eclipse? I shouldn't be surprised. Sigh.

@manton I only heard about this last night myself. There seems to be some weird perception that local authorities aren't doing extra preparation, school cancellations, and contingency planning for huge crowds but for unspecified terrorist or "deep state" reasons. On top of that, there are the occasional "solar eclipses trigger natural disasters" nonsense.

@manton @vmstan I actually think it’s going to come down to left wing purity tests. The election may well be decided by folks who won’t vote for Biden in some perverse fantasy of moral high ground, while everything they proclaim to care about gets worse under Trump.

@manton not really conspiracies as much as complete misinformation..

@manton We may have to stop taking people who "go by gut feeling or misinformation" arguments in good faith coz they probably don't want to accept the reality.