Thank you for sharing this, Alan. What scares me above all is that anyone as keenly intelligent and thoughtful as you was EVER taken in by the omnipresent web of right-wing propaganda spun daily, 24/7, by Fox “News” and a vast array of other huge, corporate-funded media outlets that have polluted our collective sphere of public influence, making Joseph Goebbels and Stalin look like amateurs. I’m glad you have “taken the red pill” and awakened from this corrosive web of delusion in which so many millions are ensnared without even knowing it.