Nietzschean Politics

Today there are political disputes about "alternative facts." It seems the largest news networks in America (Fox and CNN) are giving opposing pictures of the truth. These are not just conflicting perspectives or opinions but involve completely different facts! Media spin has become a philosophical problem. In what can you trust? A casual observer might blame this mess on the culture wars of the last third of the Twentieth Century. Both the Pomos on the Left and the Neocons on the Right have been seen as following Nietzsche in believing there is no truth. Rorty offers them a liberal public/private compromise, but Foucault ironically criticizes liberalism for its social coercion. In the end Charles Taylor complains that both Rorty and Foucault foreclose debate too early. We need to dialogue and see if we can find one view is more accurate than another or not.