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In reply to the discussion: Let's have a poll on JFK [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Sure, as I've said 68 times on this thread, truth is not decided by a majority, and that was never my point. But you strawman this anyway, because as usual your only concern is to appear to be right, so any sophistry no matter how obvious goes.
The real point being: Oswald was never the only shooter, the WCR was always a poor coverup, and this was always obvious to those not over-infected with the tenets of Americanist ideology, in which the U.S. is somehow immune from normal history. And despite a 50-year-campaign by government and media elites to impose the opposite of the truth as the hegemonic opinion, they still have failed, at least on this matter, to mislead the majority.
However, they have spawned a cult of the middle-brow who derive pleasure from imagining they are skeptics. A cult of the moderately intelligent: the smart don't fall for it, while the really stupid don't like the awesome contortions required to believe it. So its appeal is restricted to a certain mostly white male segment who like the feeling of certainty conferred by the cult belief system's simplistic semantic rules, imagining themselves superior and non-conformist when all they're doing is aligning themselves with the authoritarian wisdom.