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Cook: This is what’s breaking the life organs of America

This combination of 2018-2020 photos shows, from left, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google face a new grilling by Congress, Thursday, March 25, 2021, one focused on their efforts to prevent their platforms from spreading falsehoods and inciting violence. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, LM Otero, Jens Meyer) This combination of 2018-2020 photos shows, from left, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google face a new grilling by Congress, Thursday, March 25, 2021, one focused on their efforts to prevent their platforms from spreading falsehoods and inciting violence. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, LM Otero, Jens Meyer)

By David Cook May 15, 2021 4 min read

The big political headline last week: US Rep. Liz Cheney lost her leadership position in Congress.

But there were no political winners from this. Not her replacement, Rep. Elise Stefanik. Not Donald Trump. Not Republicans. Not Democrats.

Yes, there was a winner.

But it wasn’t us.

Currently, we are living through the greatest con in human history. The evidence is everywhere: discord, extremism, rage, alienation, disinformation, chaos, distrust, confusion and tribalism. What’s true? What isn’t? We can’t agree on basic science. Or basic election results. These are Tower of Babel times in America.