Who is really more "dangerous"? The guy constantly exposing corruption? Or the agencies which don't like being exposed... so they smear his name to turn the public against him?

Still rooting for humanity to start using their brain, heart, and gut.

I'm not giving up on people. Even when they eerily keep defending our collective abusers.

That's what happens to the traumatized and the fearful.

To many of us, these aren't complicated ideas. To put 2 and 2 together and realize the conflicts of interest have completely poisoned any chance of trusting any of the 3-letter agencies.

But clearly, if you can REPEATEDLY abuse and still keep some people's trust, we are dealing with MASTER manipulators.

An effective tactic is turning tribes of people against those of us who are willing to expose the corruption.

If you can be convinced that EXPOSING Corruption (what should be obviously the "right" thing to anyone morally intact) is somehow "dangerous"... phrases like vilifying 'conspiracy theorists' and associating them with the most extreme version...

Now you have a reliable group of people who are eager to attack the skeptics and gaslight them for merely paying attention to reality and pointing out why these agencies haven't earned our trust.

These aren't complicated ideas ... unless fear, ego, political identities, have hijacked your ability to change your mind, and to see what's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

Hold space for those who are slow to come to grips with how corrupted these regulatory groups are.

They aren't aware of much of it, and it's a really hard thing to process.

It's scary. People don't want to accept scary truths. Who can blame em?

Once you see how hijacked it really is, your worldview forever changes, and you realize you have to take RESPONSIBILITY for yourself.

It's not something most people are ready for.

Maybe they'll get there one day. If not, they are still worthy of love.

If they won't return love to you simply because you're sane enough to be skeptical of the most proven corrupt liars ever... then it may be time to give the relationship space, sadly.

Not necessarily forever. But there's only so much gaslighting you can take.