This is a very appropriate choice for word of the year. Perhaps post-fact would have been better, since it is quite clear that we are now living in a post-fact America and a largely post-fact world. From climate change to the contributions of immigrants to America to distracted driving, far too many of us believe false narratives picked up from extremist info-tainment sources and are either too lazy or not capable of digging out the facts. It's sad to watch as so many good people do truly bad things out of ignorance.