There was a time not long ago when you could trust a direction of ideology. Now everyone is selling out left and right, don’t know who to trust anymore.
The worst part about it is that formerly intelligent people are now firmly entrenched in the ‘normally intelligent’ camp (my euphemism for ‘the stupid’).
I have much deeper thoughts on this but cannot give away that aspect of my book.
Suffice to state that I have coined it here at FR as ‘the true pandemic’ (i.e., “pandemic of stupid”).
It really does explain everything, but the dilemma you describe remains...