Solving “problems that don’t exist”

That’s what the governor of Kansas had to say about election reform. Citing that there’s no evidence of fraud (that she acknowledges, not that it hasn’t occurred) she vetoed a bill that she said corrected a nonexistent problem. It comes down to believing what you want to believe and, essentially, copying the three monkeys – see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The evil being anything that doesn’t jive with what one wants to see, hear or speak. In the vernacular for the information age, we’ve dubbed it “ignore-ance.” And this ignoring of facts, expecting them to take a hike and leave the distracted and gullible in perceived peace, is being applied to all issues of controversy, impropriety and discomfort.