Russiagate: The Big Lie that just won’t die
It’s true that everybody has a right to his or her opinion, and it’s also true that not all opinions have equal weight. An informed opinion, based on a large volume of hard evidence, research and rational analysis is in a different category from an opinion founded on ignorance, lack of evidence and fallacious reasoning. A person might voice the opinion that Norway is an enemy of the U.S. and is out to get us, or that Joseph McCarthy was noble and scrupulous when he conducted his Communist witch hunts, but that opinion wouldn’t be fact based or really worth anything.
An opinion based on falsehood and irrational thought would be even worse than useless. It would do harm by promoting lies that might deceive other people.
An example of an unfounded, irrational opinion still making the rounds today is the untrue idea (one that has now been irrefutably debunked) that Russia is an enemy or the U.S. and that Russia “hacked” our 2016 election. Some people are still using McCarthyism claiming anyone who knows Russiagate is a now-disproved hoax is somehow in cahoots with the Russians. This is the silliest, most irrational, most dishonest phase I’ve seen this country go through in recent years.
Earlier I saw a post claiming Robert Mueller has an unstained reputation. Where have people who believe this been over the past few years? Among most of us on the left, Mueller is best known for lying us into war with Iraq by falsely testifying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
People so ill-informed as to believe that Russia is now an enemy state and that Mueller has a sterling reputation need to read and learn more before they speak, reveal their ignorance and, worse, mislead other people.
Today the only people who believe the Russiagate story are either (1) Politicians or corporate media flacks who stand to gain by lying to the pubic or (2) Average citizens, including rank and file Democrats, who have been successfully fooled by the politicians’ lies. Those people who research extensively and don’t reflexively believe what they’re told by establishment propagandists know what is true. Here’s a link on Russia’s not being an enemy of the U.S. (x), and here’s another on that subject: (x)
And here’s a link to a good article on evidence Russiagate has long been a known hoax: (x). There’s much more about this on my blog.
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