"Truthiness" May Be A Big Part Of America's Problem

"Truthiness" is a concept coined by Stephen Colbert.  This article suggests that it may lead the US into third world status.  According to Colbert, "truthiness" is what I think is right.  Facts are irrelevant to folks afflicted with "truthiness".  The GOP House Majority Leader declares that America has the best healthcare system in the world.  In fact healthcare is one of America's biggest problems.  Its the most expensive system in the world by a wide measure and we are less healthy as a nation than most of the industrialized countries in the world.  We look like a third world country when it comes to healthcare. This does not matter to the GOP Majority Leader.  Nor does it matter to most of his constituents who prefer to believe otherwise.  It wasn't always like this.  American's used to look at other countries that were ahead of us in an area, and we did something about it. Many American's no longer believe that we can learn anything from other countries.  Truthiness has reached epidemic proportions in America.  Too many American's only believe what they want to believe, and they only pay attention to politicians and pundits who tell them what they want to hear. Many prefer fairy tales to reality.  They are usually more comforting.