I’ve been wondering how so many people can seem to live in a delusion. I’m talking about those folks who love 45 and Fox News, and who think respected, proven media outlets tell lies. Those same folks who support policies that will harm them, like de-funding climate change initiatives and regulations, breaking Obama care, putting medicare and medicaid in jeopardy and changing our tax structure to favor the wealthy and (literally) heartless corporations.

I have been struggling to understand how people can support a person who is demonstrably immoral in so many ways, lauding him as some beacon of light on the Christian way. How they can hold up someone who does not respect facts and empirical truth, who feels no compassion, and treats people badly.  A powerful overgrown toddler who lies, brags, blames and bullies daily.

I have nearly made myself crazy trying to understand this.

I mean literally. Crazy.

Anxiety with a psyche dipping routinely dark realms like the Matrix and heady sci-fi stories where up is down and down is up, where most people can’t perceive reality because they are sheep, asleep in pods or some such useless place.

Do these folks somehow think I am one of these asleep? Yes, they do. And, I am sure they are the ones in a fog of delusion, unable to see the world correctly, or at least, unable to see the world with love and trust.

If we collectively can’t agree on reality, who benefits?

How do you find common ground when there is no agreement on reality? How can you have faith in someone who chooses delusion?

Having no faith in one another seems the common problem on both sides. Yet I don’t want to subscribe to this faithlessness, as it is part of the overall problem. But how can I trust folks who do things that may harm my loved ones? Who may literally take food from their homes and push them into poverty?

I have no answers yet, but perhaps naming this problem will yield some insight. I want to live on the upside, choosing reality over delusion and choosing faith in humanity over mistrust.

Not sure this is wise. But a fool believes.