And it's serious:
...The week after the election, in a talk at the New York Public Library, Ms. Didion lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama had become an “irony-free zone,” a vast Kool-Aid tank where “naïveté, translated into ‘hope,’ was now in” and where “innocence, even when it looked like ignorance, was now prized...”
It is particularly prized by the folks who want to sell you on how good it is, so they can refinance your home with an APR mortgage or sell you stock in AIG.
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