Of course it's not only in the USA--anyone who follows the Comments sections in Canadian MSM knows that. Institutionalized and structural amnesia and denial of facts; ad hominem attacks rather that challenges to actions, decisions, distorted values; the widespread attacks on public servants who challenged the anti-knowledge activities of the Harper government--the list goes on.

And as far as the blase attitude towards "alternative facts", I wonder to what extent that is just a logical consequence to the lies, denials, and reversals of promises that proliferate among so many members of the two dominant federal political powers in Canada. Once "everybody lies", and "politicians are all the same", became part of normal conversation, with the expectation that we can't expect anything different or better--that's just naive--once we stopped demanding integrity and honour...