Why Believe the "Official Story" on Trump-Russia Collusion and Not the "Official Story" on 9/11?
Similarities: Both stories involved an attack on the US by bad foreign actors -- the 9/11/2001 attacks were done officially by the terrorist group Al Qaeda. -- the 11/9/2016 installment of Trump as president was officially done by Russia. Both official stories were formed by information largely from the US intel agencies and media organizations. Both events were massively disruptive to our body politic, and threatened the stability of the US government. Both events favored and help promote extreme right-wing policies, with hints of fascism and a police state, particularly both on border control and demonization of Muslims. Massive tax cuts that favored the rich and caused huge federal budget deficits were pushed through the Federal government after both events. Differences: 9/11 -- never really made a lot of sense for Al Qaeda's motives. Such a large attack was bound to lead to a massive retaliation and likely destruction of Al Qaeda. Even if Al Qaeda gambled that GW Bush would at...