The Age of Post-Truth Politics

Oh, wow! My first politics/open thread post.

I have to say first and foremost that I understand where this term comes from. Especially when I see videos like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvfNEflMKp8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCEw82Os5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBfWB64iHAs


For the first video, Obama was actually speaking of roads and bridges…that business owners didn’t build.

For the second video…well, I don’t even know where to begin. But Goddess bless Katie Couric.

And for the third video, Romney was only speaking of his corporate/capitalistic freedom over his business, though people have distorted that, too.

Here are a few people that believe in the age of Post-Truth politics, and note that most of these examples are from the 2012 presidential election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Paul Krugman: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/opinion/krugman-the-post-truth-campaign.html?_r=0

David Roberts: http://grist.org/politics/in-an-era-of-post-truth-politics-credibility-is-like-a-rainbow/

Jeremy Holden: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/28/the-washington-post-and-the-emergence-of-post-t/190197

But what do all of you think? Where did this era come from? Being twenty-one, I barely remember anything before Bush’s second term, and therefore I’m curious to know if this started with another president/political era before I was born. Or perhaps it started with our first black president? Or do you think we’ve always been this way, and now the problem is more apparent?

If you don’t believe that there is such a thing as the Post-Truth Era, what do you think is in its place? Is the truth still easily searched for and found?

If you do believe in the Post-Truth Era, what do you think caused it? Media? People? Not enough education all around? Too much education all around? Something else entirely?

Let me know what you think!

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