While I applaud the Independent’s decision to give a voice to all members of the Santa Barbara community, I was very disappointed to read Lou Segal’s fact-free op-ed in the Voices section online. Again, kudos for publishing a different view, but the failure/refusal to fact-check the letter simply furthers the rampant mis-information/dis-information that has created so many problems, and so much divisiveness, in the last 8++ years.
A key part of Trumpist strategy (I won’t insult thoughtful, informed, honest Republican voters or representatives by calling people who support Trump by that name; they are, by and large, Trump cultists, or people who have fallen down the disinformation/conspiracy-theory rabbit hole) is as follows:
- Accuse your opponents of the very things you are doing;