Yeah, I really have no time for elites that complain about the public's loss of confidence. They want to blame conspiracy theorists for this and "fake news" but really the media and "establishment" absolutely destroyed their credibility over the past few years. Anyone who paid attention during the last 3 years and didn't see at least some deception on the part of media and government is hopeless. There are different levels of skepticism but institutions in not only government but also medicine lied to the masses. They may tell themselves they did it for the right reasons but one day when an even worse situation comes along people will not listen. And maybe when that happens they should listen. Its the old boy that cried wolf. You can only yell that everything is a world ending catastrophe so many times before it loses its weight.
I remember being surprised at how little changed after Snowden's revelations. It taught me something. Most people just do not care. They just want to carry on believing their fantasy. Trusting in institutions. It seems the response to Covid changed that for many. In my view, the elites let the mask slip a bit to much. At a minimum a lot of evil people know how much nonsense they can get away with now.
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I was just talking about the boy who cried wolf aspect the other day. They created a dangerous loss of confidence. Snowden- now there was a real eye opener for me. Many of my friends were furious at him for being a traitor. They bought the smoke screen. No matter how many times I tried to discuss the revelations, no one cared.
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Yeah, I have friends with the same view on Snowden. I would point out that the people that are supposed to hold these agencies accountable (Senators) failed to do their jobs as well as the law not being equally enforced on the actors in these agencies.
Its quiet ironic to me with people I know that claim to hate Communism how OK they are with the US building something far more powerful than the KGB in our "free country". At what point do you say I'm not OK with this? We "defeated" Communism just to create our own slave nation. Its absurd.
I think it is just physiologically hard to admit you've been duped. Or that something so fundamental to your beliefs has been a lie. Some of us are wired to handle this better than others. Denial is a very common response.
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