<p>What are &quot;American values&quot; and who really supports them? Not Donald Trump and certainly not his hardcore base. Trump believes that the First Amendment only allows polls that support the idea that the vast majority of Americans adore and support him. Trump believes in an America where he could shut down media outlets that say unkind things about him or point out that he is not telling the truth. Trump wants an America that treats its leader like North Korea treats Kim. That&apos;s not hyperbole. Here is what he said: &quot;He (Kim) speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.&quot; He actually said that. But much more frightening is the fact that 45 million Americans want the same thing. They want an America that is decidedly un-American. And they don&apos;t even realize it. </p>

Episode 11: A Modest Proposal revisited, the cannibal and the preachy vegan

Wait... What!? is an often humorous, sometimes ferocious, but always entertaining romp through the bizarre memes that inspire mass lunacy, religious fanaticism, and ideological intransigency where basic reasoning is overwhelmed by willful ignorance. Why do people believe and refuse to ask simple questions about the nonsense they are fed by corrupt politicians, unscrupulous religious predators, and ordinary scam artists? What is the psychological mechanism that makes masses of people behave in ways that would make lemmings point and chortle? When X-files hero Fox Mulder said, "I want to believe" he was unknowingly speaking for religious fundamentalists, conspiracy theorists, UFO true believers, nut-case truthers, and ideologues who run the gamut from skin heads to Antifa -- people for whom there can be no other side of a complicated issue. What causes these people to willingly embrace nonsense -- ideas and claims that make little or no sense -- and shut out facts and reason as if they repositories of the Corona virus? What strange predisposition keeps them from putting both hands in the stop gesture and saying, Wait... What? Howard Siegel takes us on a voyage to a world where objective, reasoned thinking has been replaced with the powerful appeal of irrationally simple answers. Howard Siegel is an attorney, author, former MSNBC legal analyst, and hapless, sysphysian golfer. He has appeared on 60 Minuets, Larry King Live, The Today Show, NPR, and PBS. He lives in South Carolina where he is a practicing heathen, heretic, and herbivore.