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What a Waste of Space

A key part of Trumpist strategy is to lie, and lie, and lie some more until few people know what the truth is. accuse your opponents of the very things you are doing.

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;