text: A few years ago we bought a new truck from a local dealership. Young salesman was intelligent and charming. He had a picture of his four year old son on the desk and had tears in his eyes as he spoke of his love for the youngster. Later as we got to know him in the drawn out process of deal making he revealed that he was Sandy Hook truther, i.e. a denier of the carnage wrought on that elementary school that had taken the lives of 26 children his sons age. Another intelligent person afflicted with the poisonous plague of disinformation that is destroying reason in this once great nation. Having never met anyone who questioned what the media was reporting on Sandy Hook I went home and googled. One half of the first page was statements by law enforcement/first responders, the rest was the ugliest, vilest conspiracy theories imaginable. Our young salesman had fallen for the crap. Why? He no doubt voted for trump. Why can so many Americans no longer recognize the truth? Right wing media?