My last post expressed a longstanding and passionate opinion of mine: that the only effective way to deal with the vast amount of politically relevant misinformation that is regularly circulating in this country is not to ignore it or dismiss it but to counter it. Given the amount of money and bandwidth deployed by reactionary special interests to spread their point of view, now more than ever we need regular and efficient vehicles for shedding light in dark places and exploding the myths and delusions that bedevil our politics.
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