If you were "in control," and didn't know one way or the other, you'd opt for the easily acceptable, yes?
I have a strong suspicion we know more than we're saying.
Depends. I've been pretty skeptical of
THE PARTY LINE
most of my life.
And, I've often found it useful to consult with old codgers who tend to disagree with me.
And, I have virtually always read from one extreme to the other on a wide diversity of topics.
On this topic, my 'free choice' to disbelieve ended a long time ago. My relative working around them would have done it alone. A lot of other people I knew touching on the topic in the course of their lives would have done it alone. A wide diversity of reading on it might have done it alone. All together--certainly does convince me some very usual things have been going on a long time and our Government has been chief among those complicitly involved with such goings on.