Trumping Facts With Fantasy

IN FRONT OF GOD, country, and world, Donald Trump invited Russian hackers to break into Hillary Clinton's email account. A group of Russians, connected to their government, met with Trump's son, who tried, unsuccessfully, to hide the meeting from god, country, and the world. The FBI determined, after an investigation, that Russian operatives tried to influence the election outcome in Trump's favor. During the campaign, hundreds of thousands of dollars of pro Trump advertising appeared on Facebook, paid for by, yes, Russians. Other than that, there is not the slightest evidence that that Donald Trump conspired with a foreign power to help his election campaign. Just in case, several investigations into the matter are ongoing. Stay tuned. For Trump supporters, these investigations are nothing but witch hunts, orchestrated by the left wing media, liberals, democrats, or...somebody. I have a friend whose entire life, as far as I can tell, is devoted to the paranormal, or "alternative cosmic paradigms". Included are the usual; UFOs, disembodied entities, and such. In his universe, innumerable extraterrestrial entities live among us, injecting themselves in every aspect of human civilization, involving themselves in conspiracies, secretly running the world. Never mind the problem of a hollow earth and gravity; they're down there too, thriving. Elite people are conspiring with aliens, for insidious reasons. for my friend, the less likely that something exists, the more likely he is to believe in it. The more likely, the less he accepts it. Any verifiable fact he seems to reject, as being too mundane, boring, or...something. he has rejected reality, and retreated into fantasy. Not surprisingly, he voted for trump. for me, that was the last straw. People who dwell in fantasy find common cause. Trump, draining the swamp, and refilling it in his image. he will keep hordes of murdering marauding Muslims and Mexicans out of the country. In Trump's twisted, unreal world, voter fraud is rampant, all in Hillary's favor. The election was rigged, in her favor. When he boasted about his ability to molest women without consequence, it became "locker room talk", irrelevant to those who support him. Trump supporters and friends of the paranormal world have in common an angry, arrogant disdain for reality, preferring instead to dwell in their imaginary world where every Muslim is a terrorist and every news event the product of some conspiracy. If and when the Mexicana and extraterrestrials go home, the purveyors of fiction will replace with a new set of alternative facts.