Well, here's the thing from where I stand...
Kelly Anne Conway was the first administration official to use the phrase "alternative facts". But if we see that as an effort to create an equivalency between truth and fiction, fact and falsehood, it's difficult to see how that really helps the body politic.
And it's happening at a time where, as a nation, we may be more divided since the Civil War.
I have a close friend, who declined my offer to view the Vice News footage of the Friday night torch led parade in Charlottesville. The reason he gave was "the media lies. I don't have to watch it. It's fake". Even telling him that a white nationalist leader had invited Vice News to film him made no difference. It was fake, and he did not have to watch it to know it was fake.
This is happening everywhere, to the extent there are now two sets of realities. With two narratives of current events in America. I am sorry if I have to look at people like Trump, Spicer, Conway, etc. as the drivers of an effort to create an alternative world that seems detached from the real world. That's my bias, but it sure seems like that is what is happening. It sure seems like creating this equivalency can be laid at their feet at this time.
If we want two Americas unable to communicate with each other, that's one way to go about ensuring those two Americas will grow further apart and not communicate. Not only is that detrimental, but it's difficult to see how we can fail to recognize how injurious to our political and societal health that can be. And that's why I started this thread. If I reach even a handful of people interested and able to agree we should be concerned with creating an equivalency tween fact and fiction, that's good enough for me.