If you haven't found CounterPunch in your search for the truth, allow me the pleasure.
Having only a few sources for your research into what is true for you leads, inevitably, to not finding the truth, but simply a limited view of it.
Much like a proper diet needs a variety of foods, so too does the search for truth need a variety of sources.
If you only read things that reinforce your already held ideas, then you might as well go back to the msm as your sole source of knowledge, eh?
Defund the Police
On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America.
Trump and state governors eventually deployed at least 17,000 National Guard troops across the country.
In the nation’s capital, Trump deployed nine Blackhawk assault helicopters, thousands of National Guard troops from six states and at least 1,600 Military Police and active-duty combat troops from the 82nd Airborne Division, with written orders to pack bayonets.
After a week of conflicting orders during which Trump demanded 10,000 troops in the capital, the active-duty troops were finally ordered back to their bases in North Carolina and New York on June 5th, as the peaceful nature of the protests made the use of military force very obviously redundant, dangerous and irresponsible.
But Americans were left shell-shocked by the heavily armed troops, the tear gas, the rubber bullets and the tanks that turned U.S. streets into war zones.
They were also shocked to realize how easy it was for President Trump, single-handedly, to muster such a chilling array of force.
If you only entertain ideas that already agree with what beliefs you also hold, you are not seeking the truth, you are seeking confirmation of your beliefs.
(Expect to be the victim of confirmation bias.)
In order to find the truth, you gotta let your beliefs go.
If you believe something to be true, but don't really know for yourself if it is or isn't, and you act on that belief, do you wonder why you are wrong so often?
Most of the ideas in your head are beliefs, put there by folks you trusted and respected.
That is not an easy predicament to escape.
Some of you will be 'lucky' enough to 'escape'. but the reality is, if nobody else gets out with you, you are the pariah, despite their mistaken position on the matter.
