this swirling eddy of "team-ism" is drawing us further and further away from rationality ... the truth is the truth ... regardless of who is stating it ... each of us should be able to employ our own intellectual and logical capabilities to decide if information is fact-based and reliable ...

content source may have once been more significant than it is now .. because presently too many once-reliable sources have been turned on their heads ... for whatever reasons ...

sharing the truth is of paramount importance ... it should be remembered that even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn ... and even a broken clock is right two times every day ...

now more than ever, it is critically important to use facts as our north star ... there are persistent energies being expended to shape our understandings away from facts ...

listening to fox's tucker carlson, or msnbc's rachel maddow, or cnn's jake tapper should have us intent on the close scrutiny of facts ... we need to make up our own minds, rather than to be led to any faulty, misguided conclusions that are fed to us ...

in this, carlson is presenting the truth ... we should listen ... rather than to diminish it because the source is not on a "team" we feel affiliated with ...