Korey Krauskopf
Aug 24, 2017 · 2 min read

I like the passion and intelligence you write with. Your list of 23 responses to the Charlotteville situation was full of heart and yet direct and useful.

However, this piece reads like conspiracy theory. You reference an “unfathomably powerful class” and a “bubble of deceit specifically designed” to direct our attention in specific ways.

Can you show us how this is true? Are there facts that we can track that will support this assertion, or is this a general feeling that you have pieced together from the general horribleness you see happening?

Without proof, this comes off as the same undirected fear-mongering (the global elite are controlling everything!) that led to people thinking an outsider, any outsider, would be the answer to shaking up the government power structure. For years people have been holding up their favorite boogey-man (Soros! Koch brothers!) to explain how everything is being controlled and manipulated. When you dig deeper the narrative falls apart; Soros is not busing in protesters and giving them all free phones just to attend a march. The Koch brothers aren’t setting the conservative agenda of all right-wing media through dark edicts. The Illuminati is not pulling the strings of a shadowy collection of leaders who are setting the course of history.

I’m afraid the simplest answer is likely the truth: nobody is in control of this. Messy human nature, greed, and self-interest drive the media, politicians, and the average person on the street, not some organized cabal. The “deep state” is another fabrication to allow people to believe that someone is steering this ship, and thus someone is to blame, and if we can only stop that person, or that organization, all will be good.

Media reports what it does because that gets views. That’s all. That’s their business. White power groups are getting more vocal because their growing fear and feeling of being oppressed has found some level of air cover in the current administration. Trump does what he does for personal validation and greed, as well as a genuine love of the white America he remembers back when America was “great”

Fighting against a shadowy mythical controlling force makes us demonize anyone who disagrees with us because we have to assume their motives aren’t their own, they are serving a darker purpose. This can only lead to distrust and fear, which we already have ample stores of.

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