If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
