This clip perfectly captures so much of what is wrong with the media and the establishment more broadly. Instead of presenting actual arguments or evidence, this woman resorts to vague anecdotes about what her "people in Africa" supposedly told her. There is no scientific rigor, and often not even a genuine interest in finding the truth. Everything is filtered through feelings. It makes her feel better to believe that the billions burned through USAID corruption somehow saved poor African children, so she'll cling to that belief regardless of the evidence. The same pattern shows up everywhere, especially in the Trump era. Russiagate is a perfect example. Evidence became secondary because many people preferred to believe Putin had installed Trump in the White House. Then there was the Covid origin lie. The virus had to have emerged naturally because the alternative would have proven Trump right about the Wuhan lab. That was emotionally unacceptable, so the natural origin narrative had to be defended regardless of the evidence. You see the same dynamic in countless other debates. People simply embrace whatever narrative makes them feel morally righteous instead of following the evidence wherever it leads. I don't know exactly how we got here. Maybe it's social media, maybe it's ideological activism, maybe it's the decline of critical thinking, or maybe it's the intense emotional reaction that Trump evokes, which seems to amplify every one of these tendencies. Whatever the cause, a society that replaces evidence-based truth seeking with emotionally satisfying narratives is on a dangerous path. If we cannot recover a culture that values facts over feelings, we are digging the grave of Western civilization.