When "American discourse is totally divorced from really when the good guys cannot really distinguish basic empirical truths, and discourse cannot identify obvious and catastrophic dangers to democracy — then --that is t he bad guys’ best friend, and anything goes; a democracy can hardly endure. Here are the perspectives that mainstream elites use to give credence to reality: "The economy’s never been better, although 70% of Americans can’t raise $1000 for an emergency, 80% live paycheck to paycheck, the majority struggle to pay basic bills, and the average American now dies in debt. Those aren’t concentration camps — they’re “detainment facilities.” It’s not bona fide authoritarianism when all three branches of democratic government have been captured by fanatical extremists.Are you beginning to see what I mean?"