Fact deficiency

Are we headed toward a fact-deficient society or are we already there? For many, climate change is the hoax believed by Donald Trump. However, facts tell a different story.

If you live in Australia, you have witnessed the burning of 12.5 million acres during the winter season and still no end in sight. Many areas have had no rain in more than a year.

Here in the U.S. we witnessed the burning of an entire town in California just one year ago. Tornadoes have occurred in the southeast when they normally occur during the spring. Anchorage, Alaska, just experienced their first 90-degree day in their history this past summer. The evidence exists and is overwhelming, but the naysayers are blinded by the rhetoric put forth by the deniers.

I read the Mueller Report. Only 100 pages in, one can easily conclude it was Russia and not Ukraine who interfered in the 2016 election. Yet the president, congressional Republicans, and other administration officials continue putting forth this false narrative of Ukraine involvement.

How can seventeen member agencies of the intelligence community, and the Mueller team of fifteen lawyers and thirty support staff, be wrong? They weren’t — that is, if one believes in facts and truth, rather than make-believe, Santa Claus, and the tooth fairy.

CMR sent an email around Thanksgiving expressing she had just finished reading the Bible. While that may bring her some solace, I would have preferred she read the Mueller Report as a responsibility to her constituents.

Allen D. Roberts

St. John, Wash.