Post-truth politics
Politics in which facts are considered irrelevant
Post-truth politics
Post-truth politics, also described as post-factual politics or post-reality politics, is a widely recognized historical period where political culture is marked by public anxiety about what claims can be publicly accepted facts, heightened concern over the honesty of public figures, and public's tendency to accept claims that elicit an emotional response and confirm pre-existing beliefs over professionally accepted evidence. Indeed most research demonstrates an increasing disconnect between public opinion and scholarly consensus, which is thought to exemplify the core of the era. The term is often used pejoratively to describe a dystopian political discourse in which empirical truth is irrelevant, and is forced to compete with false ideas which are given unjust credibility. The proposed beginning of this period has been subject to discussion, the term post-truth had been used by authors as early as the 1990s. While related, and sometimes used interchangeably, post-truth politics is a...
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