Yet, today, Americans and the politicians who represent them are increasingly disconnected from facts and reality. This willful or unintentional ignorance ranges from the relatively mundane – about half of Americans think that gentically modified foods are bad for their health (they aren't) – to the dangerous – around 3 in 10 Americans think that that 2020 election was illegitimate (it wasn't). You can find a great many other issues for which Americans on the Left and Right prefer biased, fallacious feelings over evidence-based facts: gun control, climate change, vaccines, diversity training, etc. And as these preferences have grown more dogmatic, exacerbated by social media echo chambers, so, too has our politics. Make no mistake, Americans are already paying for our collective ignorance with our freedom. When we ignore climate change, we lose the freedom to live where we want. When we ignore the overwhelming evidence for vaccines, we lose the freedom to gather without fear of a deadly virus. When we ignore each other, we lose our freedom by slipping into dark, ideological prisons of our own devising.