Your articles are psychologically sustaining for those of us who live the crushing frustration of moving in 'leftist' circles of friends and family who, like the 'left' as a whole, have lost any ability to spot bullshit in official establishment narratives. Thank you! The frustration lies in observing otherwise intelligent people fail to detect what is screamingly obvious, confirming that effective propaganda doesn't hide the truth, it conditions the public to not notice the obvious, to ignore the elephant in the room -- like the proverbial naked emperor. So that, what used to be considered political and corporate criminality is now done in plain view, but the western 'left' has been conditioned to not only not see it, but to aggressively deny what is obvious to those who haven't surrendered their critical thinking.