Question: What are the two biggest lies the Kremlin wants us to believe, during the last 60 years?
Or, perhaps, I should rephrase this, since many on this forum believe one or even both of these ‘theories’: What at the two biggest theories the Kremlin wants us to believe, during the last 60 years?
The overall goal of the Kremlin, or any enemy of democracy, is to convince people within a democracy, that they don’t really live in a democracy. This is the most effective attack. It is not effective at all to argue that you people are not smart enough to choose your own leaders, so you would be better off trust us and have a dictatorship run things for you. This argument goes nowhere. But what does work is to say:
What? You guys think you live in a real democracy? How can you be so naïve? Don’t you realize that your vote doesn’t count? Or, in an extreme version, don’t you realize that there is a ‘Deep State’ that is really in control?
How do those who support dictatorships justify lying? That is justify to themselves? I think their thinking is democracy is weak and fragile. It may be good, but it can never last. Tyranny is strong and much more enduring. The long human history is a record of the triumph of tyranny. Weather through kings, emperors or dictatorships, tyranny is the natural order of things. Democracy has only been going for a century or two. Maybe it is doomed. What would happen if the Kremlin left democracy alone? Inevitably, someone else, someone possibly worse, like the Nazis, would attack and eventually bring down democracies. So, perhaps it is best for the Kremlin to do the work themselves. I think their thinking is somewhere along those lines.
The two biggest Kremlin lies, or Kremlin theories, directed at the American people, during the last 60 years, are:
1. JFK was assassinated by a conspiracy, covered up by, and likely directly by, the U. S. government.
2. The 2020 Election was a fraud.
Now, admittedly, the second lie, the Kremlin didn’t have to get started. Trump did that all on its own. But it is surely a lie they fully support.
The first lie, the Kremlin supported pretty early on. The Kremlin had a pretty significant impact on the conspiracy theories. It was the Kremlin, hearing early reports of Jim Garrison’s ‘investigation’ that caused them to have an Italian tabloid, ‘Paese Sera’, print an article that amazingly enough got Garrison on the trail of Clay Shaw, who up until then was a minor suspect. After early involvement, and some ‘off-hand’ comments by Khrushchev about the assassination, the Kremlin has let the JFK conspiracy theories run on their own.
The second lie, I don’t know if the Kremlin has done anything to support. They don’t need to. We have a President who tells us what the Kremlin wants us to believe. That our elections are corrupt. That there was a Large-Secret-Enduring conspiracy that successfully flipped the 2020 election. I remember that immediately after the January 6 riot, a Kremlin spokesman could not contain his exuberance and declared ‘Merry Christmas’. It was two weeks since Christmas but it still seemed like Christmas to him. Trump is a gift that just keeps on giving.
The 2020 Election fraud belief was not one that I saw coming. And, to be honest, if I thought there would be tens of millions of Americans who would come to believe our democracy was corrupt, it would not have been from the group that fell for this lie. Shows how much I know. But now, for the first time, tens of millions of Americans are starting to get it. Our democracy is corrupt. Our elections are secretly rigged. Thousands of programmers and election volunteers and even Republican politicians who support Trump like governors and Secretaries of States for various state governments are in on it or at least supporting this conspiracy.
Now, if I am wrong:
Question:
What are the two ‘theories’ that the Kremlin would most like the American people to believe, during the last 60 years?
