Alternative Facts

We all wonder what is waiting for us in 2018. Some of it will be personal, just for us, while other things will be about world events like war and natural effects like earthquakes and hurricanes, things beyond our control; and some of it, of course, will be politics. It's politics which connects us to this bigger picture. Through our votes we provide some of the inputs which help shape, and react to, events. In the days following the writing of this article, and in the days preceding it, as well as in the months before that, the connection of people with politics has been especially clear. The Czech people voted in November for a new government, which is now not clearly in place, and they will…