If your sources are biased or incomplete or outright incorrect, then so will be your decision making.

This is so important. Politically motivated demonization of many reliable sources has a great many people blindly trusting sources that are obviously, and rabidly so, politically biased. These people believe the most astonishing things! They accept fairy tale characters as real, absurdly simple explanations as plausible, and surreal illustrations as real, as if their information had come straight to them from some sort of god. I am speechless before them. What can you say?

I, like your father, try to read right and left information but, sadly, both sides now seem false to me, and I've had to go far out from mainstream publications to come to any understanding of the world today.

Thank you for stating these thoughts.