(#6221) Most of us grew up admiring good and great people so what happened?

      Not only are we not surrounding ourselves with good and great people but we are working to surround ourselves with the worst kind of people. Not all of us for sure but too many are. How could we have been so misinformed as to the higher ideals of honor to allow ourselves to be drawn down into muck and mire? For example, trump has been twice installed as our president when the overwhelming evidence of his fraud and deviancy is mountainous. When I was younger even a small hill of evidence that clearly showed filthy proclivities was enough to raise the hackles of nearly everyone! Not today, too many would just ignore or defend the culprit despite clear evidence. What turned in our society?
     For me it was the dismantling of the "Fairness Doctrine", that allowed pseudo news organizations to lie instead of sticking to truths and facts; and a Laissez-faire attitude among our populace about logically learning and incorporating new information. In other words our society allowed itself to dumb down because learning with logic had become too hard apparently! So now we have become a nation of the gullible, the easily deceived. Some of us saw this happening in real time and called it out but the many more of us just didn't care because they were happy enough and actually enjoyed seeing other groups of people demoralized. Somehow, pettily, that made them feel better about themselves.
     A lot of things have gone wrong since the period of nixon, when the lies and misinformation really started in the republican party as a strategy. The outcome of those several decades of disinformation programming since then is now our current dilemma. There is no debating with those who cannot and/or will not understand objectivity as a guiding principle of logic. Fortunately there are still good and great people out there in our society and with some concerted effort their examples will return us to a time when admiring their lives was a value of integrity and purpose. For those who are not able to capture reality as it truly is there is only relentless truth to force them to reevaluate.