I distrust people who try to push ideological packages that are packaged, then sold without any regard to historical fact, especially if they clash with the black and white thought-patterns they either grew up with or have taught themselves to believe in..
Most of my posts reflect my attitude, and most of them have unkind things to say about right-wing politicians, right-wing influencers, and the self-deceiving chumps who choose to believe in them.
Unfortunately, some progressives are also prone to consuming ideological packages without bothering to shake the boxes, squeeze the tissues, or bothering to see if their notions might be contradicted by unpleasant facts. The “fellow travelers” before Worlld War II were one example; so were the anti-war activists who wrote ideological blank checks to Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge.
I believe that it is a citizen’s duty to examine polemical statements and judge their veracity or lack of same. Right now I believe that responsibility has fallen to the (real) center and to the left, because the political and social right has fallen giddily in love not only with accepting and repeating lies and falsehoods, but inventing new ones.
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