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The Trump Years: Politically Driven Willful Ignorance
- Donald Trump
In a 2017 poll, 57% of the respondents who said that they voted for Donald Trump “said it was ‘definitely true’ or ‘probably true’ that [President Obama] came from Kenya.” While the rest of the world debates how to deal with climate change, only “70 percent of Americans believe ‘global warming is happening’”. A survey in 2016 suggested, “that one in three supporters of Donald Trump believe vaccines do indeed cause autism.”
While much has been made of the fact that Trump has been no more faithful to the truth than he has been to his wives, this ignores the greater threat facing our country. A president’s term in office is limited and Trump will eventually leave the Oval Office. However, the minority of Americans who placed him in that office will remain, ready to close their eyes to reality and support the next charismatic leader who comes along.
In the Information Age, it only takes a few keystrokes to find a link to Obama’s original birth announcements from not one, but two separate newspapers. The data clearly shows that “the ten warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998, and the four warmest years on record have all occurred since 2014.” Study after study has shown that “the…
