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not-myself-today ago

I have ZERO ideological interest so it's taking me a while to get my head around the fact that so many people see the reality or not of Pizzagate as an IDEOLOGICAL question (huh?); the first layer is easy enough to spot (tho it still took me a while to believe it), and that's the "argument" that says it's all a right -wing fake news conspiracy to discredit the demoncrats & if you take it seriously you are either one of them or you fell for their dastardly ploy & you are a Sucker. The people who take this position don't consider the evidence worth looking at, because they already "know" it's all fake.

The second layer is not so obvious but it's the people who think that art & free expression is 100% good and by definition harmless and can't ever be seen as evidence of criminal or sociopathic behaviors (artists can't ever be sociopaths, coz, like democrats, they are all GOOD PEOPLE; I guess?). So for these sorts of people (who overlap with the first group), looking at Podesta, Alefantis and their buddies' weird instagrams and art collections as possible evidence of misbehavior makes you a Nazi-Christian moral crusader sharpening your pitchfork and dousing your torch in gasoline; like, automatically, to question the predominant neoliberal value set MAKES you a right-wing reactionary.

So the Partisan problem goes deeper than just political affiliation and there may not be a way to depoliticize Pizzagate, only to be aware of this ideological factor and how it is running almost all neurotypicals' hard-drives and shaping their thinking, uh, I mean their emoting, around the subject.