Somebody's poll numbers are stinky, and advisors bring the likeable guy in to make the mean guy more likeable.

Like me growing apples in Florida. A complex niche of weird.

Or names of condoms.

The only reason I know this is a thing is because of you. Pretty neat.

I should have put the little scarcasm /s after that. I love Canada and Canadians. I'm sorry we're morons.

The first order of business might be learning how to spell "defense", eh? 😀

Exactly David. If we can't live in a common reality based on evidence, there can be no democracy. Whatever the Supreme Leader says is reality. That's how it worked in Iran anyway.

I ask this all the time. But I do sense (just based on observation) that most of this comes from interests hostile to the USA. If they can break trust in agriculture and medicine, those are two places where the USA was #1. Use social media as a disinformation conduit to get folks to not trust food.

Exactly. It is 1.5% of the population, but critical to everything else. And I understand why they vote the way they do-- in the past the politcal left would shut them down in a heartbeat with regulation and bans on tech/chemistry. But this is probably worse.

There are companies poised to do that, and if you look carefully at who is heavily invested in them you see some familiar names.