Derangement Watch: Kevin Roose, "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis"

This really is a masterpiece of the genre.

   Obviously he isn't wrong about the stolen election hoax, nor about QAnon.

   What's astonishing is the one-sidedness of the thing--the abject obliviousness to the far greater madness on the left. No mention of gender pseudoscience, race pseudoscience, Lysenkoism generally, Russiagate, Laptopgate, TDS, the ideological capture of our formerly-truth-seeking institutions...all the madness I'm always ranting about. As nutty as the right can be, its current nuttiness pales in comparison to the derangement of the progressive left.

  It's like reading an essay by a Scientologist complaining about a couple of dopey doctrines of the Methodists or something.

  And then there're the proposed solutions!:

[1] The appointment of a "Reality Czar"

[2] “We have to destroy the institutional systemic racism that creates this environment. We have to provide jobs. We have to have access to mental health care and education.”

   (Even the author acknowledges that [1] "sounds a little dystopian...")

   So the solution is: more left-wing totalitarianism! More institutionalized political correctness and thought/speech restrictions--and, of course, addressing the phantom menace of "systemic racism"!!!

   The very idea that the left, the elites and the government could be trusted as gatekeepers of reality...Jesus Christ, you might as well turn the keys over to Trofim Lysenko himself.

   This reminds me of a post I saw the other day--I kinda think it was by the guy who runs Politifact...asserting that one of the biggest lies of the year was that the Biden admin's "Disinformation Governance Board" was a threat to free speech.

   The mind, it reels...