 Ultimately, our culture needs courageous pragmatists among the elites to push back against their imaginative and ideological make-believe colleagues with reasoning, resolution, and ridicule. Here's a way to start. Be gentle to those who imagine things are not true, but don't play along just to get along or to avoid being called names. Question narratives, don't parrot them, and only vote for those focused on making it easier for you to make do and achieve your own goals.