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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: The conservative movement in America is becoming detached from reality.


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Right-wingers in the U.S. seem to be drifting further and further into their own alternative version of reality.

They have rejected science for a long time now (evolution, young earth, global warming is a hoax, biodiversity is unimportant etc).

Academia in general is dismissed. Universities are said to have a liberal bias, especially all studies of the arts.

The media is the latest to be rejected. All mainstream media is "untrustworthy" and blogs and youtube are taken at face value, despite the fact that mainstream media actually has fact checking and accountability.

The thing is, if you reject science, academics and the media as sources of information, what are you left with? Your own version of reality, which bears no relationship to the real world.
gpt
Well this is as a pretty liberal guy, both the left and the right are becoming more and more detached from reality. The social conservatives of America are really detached from the realities at play, but the economic conservatives tend to be pretty understanding of business motivations and free market economics. There is a reason most economists tend to lean more right in policy proposals. 

But at the same time academia does have a ton of problems going on right now, especially in the humanities and many of the soft sciences. Many of them no longer really aim for objectivity, but pursue political aims. This problem is less prevalent in hard sciences since the scientific method is more valued; but in soft sciences critical theory is more commonly found than critical thought.

The media currently does have problems as well, mainly brought by the 24 hour news cycle and the constant need for views, but it has degraded journalism to talking heads.

So yeah have social conservatism become fairly detached from reality, yeah. But so have some socially progressive movements.  So have some parts of academia, so have some parts of the media. Its a problem across society at the moment, and sadly the people most deluded tend to be the loudest. But currently there are movements in the left, and the right, in academia, and in the media trying to bring everyone back to a more realistic basis.