It is without irony that I remind readers that it was Kellyanne Conway – loudspeaker of the early Trump administration – who coined the phrase “Alternative facts” in January 2016 (about inauguration crowd sizes). After all, you would think “fake news” has existed far longer. Of course, if we count centuries of propaganda it has, yet we have entered a frightening era where actual facts and realities are now witch-hunted as fake news even when they are resoundingly real.

I could wax poetic for paragraphs on the world’s present plight that seems all the more emphasized in America. Only this morning I engaged with a childhood best friend’s parent on Facebook who used a website called Kamala Harris DOT NEWS (I refuse to link the source) to share that our current Vice President has reaped the benefits of slavery as her ancestor was a slaveholder (let us ignore that her slaveholder relative raped the other, overlooked ancestor). But Kamala Harris DOT NEWS – how does one fight kindergarten logic?