Donald Trump's inauguration has happened, and social media has exploded with the angry liberal against the angry conservative, both coming up with offensive slogans for the other. Trump supporters claim they united and got on board under Obama, wondering why on earth the mad liberals won't do the same. Liberals can't understand how anyone could be a Trump supporter given what he has said, his character, and so forth. One side says, "Give the guy a chance," the other side says, "He's had his chance. We've listened carefully to what he says and we reject it." It's funny if you can stop being horrified for a few seconds. I mean, come on, alternative facts? I'm not sure if anyone can legitimize that, no matter whose side your own, although I'm sure there's a way. The pussy-grabbing statement had a decent rebuttal from some well-put-together video stating facts about how crass Americans are in terms of who watches pornography and likes cheap entertainment and dirty lyrics, so why should Trump be any different.

It's opening up grounds to argue just about anything. Feminism. White privilege. Racism. Morality.

Can you be a feminist and be pro-life? Can you be a Christian and support Donald Trump? Can you be a Christian and a liberal? Can you support Trump and value equality? Should the term feminism exist? Do dirt-poor whites still deserve the label "white privileged"? Should Trump be held morally accountable?

What I argue is at the very core of every debate is the question of truth-- and truth and morality are wed. Morality is changing; it's subjective; it's dependent on a source of authority (or Authority) and that source of authority is changing. We live in a world of information, where one (professional, educated, credible) person can make a valid position for why abortion is right and another for why it is wrong, or a (professional, educated, credible) person can make a debate for why Trump's promise to wipe ISIS off the face of the earth is a good claim and another that it is evil. It gets personal fast because it's an attack on how a person perceives goodness, righteousness, morality. Isn't that what makes us human? So we resort to child-like name-calling, just like the political campaigns themselves, until it gets violent, and even then that violence is either labelled just (punching Richard Spencer, for example), or unjust (damaging and ruining property in protest).

Does truth exist? Credible, educated individuals argue opposite perspectives on any topic you can dream of. Is it just that one side is corrupt, spouting lies as truth? Does doublethink really exist? Is the world really going to melt or isn't it? Is abortion right or wrong? Give us simple answers, we beg.

I do believe in truth, and I do believe in morality, but I also believe in complexity. In all of this, I advocate a devotion to seeking, asking, and knocking, a devotion to complexity, to revision. But in reality, my heart starts pounding and my hands start shaking and I start sweating when I dive in, and I just say idiot, idiot, idiot.