Real truth looks the same from every angle, from all perspectives. It is objective. I’m a scientist and mathematician. If not for objective truth, we’d still be in the dark ages.

We might want 2+2 to equal 5, but wanting it to be so doesn’t make it so. 2+2 will still objectively equal 4, and we will objectively be wrong.

I find, when speaking to much younger people, they’ve been educated to downplay the importance of, if not the existence of objective truth. All opinions are equal, so no one can be wrong, so if people differ, since neither can be wrong, neither can be right.

Less than fine for opinions (some opinions are much more valuable than others) but disastrous for facts. If no one can be wrong, then neither can their “facts” be wrong, so neither can anyone else’s facts be right.

Churchill said we may all be entitled to our own opinions, but we’re not entitled to our own facts. I think young people now would argue with him.

I don’t approach this as a Trumpista. I worried about his seeming ignorance of our government and Constitution. I campaigned against him.

But he’s turned out to be far less dangerous to us than we now know the government itself has been and seems still to be.

I have an opinion and solution for this problem, uphold the law equally for everyone, no matter how high or how mighty, to prevent future abuses, prosecute those who break the law and punish them accordingly:

https://medium.com/@Penseur/wheres-cicero-when-you-need-him-b277c15d465a