I suspect we have some "deep staters" in attendance. Everything you know, you don't. Everything you believe is false. A liberal conspiracy exists and it's hiding in plain sight.

If you ignore these "throw the baby out with the bathwater" comments, some good discussion is being had.

...and it's the others who believe in conspiracy theories? The "deep staters" you call them?

I didn't invent it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_State...

I discovered it on July 4 when people I passingly know on FB took a pledge to QAnon. Looking up QAnon brought me to the Deep State conspiracy belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

One characteristic of it is a deep distrust of "the media".

This is a well phrased variant of: "since they're critical, they must be wrong".

You can be critical without being dehumanizing.

Is 'infected' really dehumanizing? Groups of humans can be infected with a disease, ideology, etc. I didn't mean to sound dehumanizing I'm just frustrated by the lack of reliable information about the world we live in.

Please don't do this here. I realize the topic is inflammatory but this sort of generic ideological rant is particularly off topic on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Sorry, dang. I'll leave it at that. I understand it's inflammatory. I do however believe it's very relevant to the ongoing cancel and cultural warfare.