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by neeh0 1466 days ago
Sorry, but this comment is so vauge and always correct in general (there will never be society agree upon truth). What's your point?
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The parent is accurate, hence we can’t have honest arguments about single payer health care as a replacement for our current patchwork of 17 health care systems.

Your comment is accurate, hence Congress (and the 2+ American cultures they represent) can’t agree on almost anything.

I would argue not all denials of objective truth are equal. When one faction of the US has problems admitting that the elected officials+LEOs investigated allegations of fraud, courts bent over backwards to tolerate frivolous lawsuits which had no specific evidence of fraud, and literally tens of millions of them regularly consume opinion disguised as factual news from several outlets which have said exactly this in court.

We are also seeing an increase in size, population, severity, and intensity of non-falsifiable claims including Stop the Steal, QAnon, and perhaps even claims of racist police murders.

Specific to health care, we have far too many incurious people who don’t bother to understand the current state of healthcare in the USA or reject any government-sponsored changes simply on the grounds that the government is involved (despite it being the status quo).