Has an eclectic set of opinions from capitalism is killing the middle class to being anti vax to being an environmental lawyer. He’s cozy with a lot of reactionary figures and the mainstream liberal media hates him. Is he getting amplified by right wingers to destabilize the Democratic primary?
They sold us on the COVID vax being sterilizing and instead we got something more akin to the flu shot.
It speaks to a larger problem that’s emerged in the post-2016 era where the narrative of countering fake news/misinformation has been used to back door in a rehabilitation of the various institutions everyone lost confidence in: if you don’t trust WaPo and the NYT then you’re falling for fake news, if you question the pharma industry then you don’t believe the science, if you question the intelligence agencies then you’re falling for Russian propaganda. Unfortunately, too many on the left are swayed by this.
Of course, it doesn’t help that the waters get muddied by RFK Jr types where they tie in absolute kooky stuff with the reasonable critiques which makes it easy to throw the baby out with the bath water. Which is why I believe in two conspiracy theories: one, Epstein didn’t kill himself. Two, the conspiracy theory conspiracy theory, that the various institutions of power are responsible for disseminating crackpot conspiracy theories as to encourage people to see all critiques of the institutions of power as crackpot; if you’ve got Qanon nutters screaming about pizzagate, then people will be less likely to take the accusations against the real Epsteins seriously.
You don’t believe the CIA killed Kennedy?
My feeling is that TPTB are hiding something about what happened with the Kennedy assassination, but it’s covering up something embarrassing, not a conspiracy. Like, the deep state didn’t off him, rather they missed something or did some sort of massive oopsie that would’ve sunk the careers of dozens of spies if it got out. Some sort of Burn After Reading level farce but with much greater consequences.