I’ve come to the conclusion that reality is fairly irrelevant. I didn’t think so at first, but the more I see what is happening around me the more I recognize the statement to be utterly true. From Trump’s fallacious ‘people are saying’ to the short-sightedness of people drawn to true/false based answers, the reality I deal with every day allows room for vast interpretation. Trevor Noah took a stab at this recently, comparing Trump to ‘the dress’ meme people couldn’t get away from. Is it gold? is it black? Well, reality is nuanced. We elected Obama under the understanding he would pull all troops out of Iraq and let them deal with their own shit. He did so and ISIS formed. Now we are blaming the man for ISIS and the “growing threat to US security” which is largely false.
No, Mr. Trump, Obama did not found ISIS. What he did do was respond to the desires and will of the American people–a will that shifted into ‘why did you leave?!” mode once we got out and shit got real. In other words, he did what is about to happen with the Brexit. I bet they’ll blame that one on David Cameron. I bet he quit to dodge that exact bullet.