Ghost of a flea

My theory of how the world works is that half of what is asserted under a high-sounding theme is a cover for something low, half of established theories and facts we are taught are false or mistaken, and half of what occurs in politics is by conspiracy or manipulation. People often mask their plots or don't know what they are doing. I'm a skeptic.

Unfortunately, most people are not skeptics, except for something new and improved. They swallow what the Establishment feeds them. They have no idea what is being put over on them.

The other half of the people outside the Establishment are skeptical, but of those whom the Establishment suggests they suspect. They are made skeptical of the U.S. when it is upholding civilization but not when it is upholding the enemies of civilization as in the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon. They are made skeptical of Israel when it is defending itself but not when its suborned or blackmailed or pressured leaders make concessions to their people's enemies. They are made skeptical of "settlers" when they are Jews but not when they are Arabs seeking to aggrandize themselves, dreaming of returning to a situation as when the Arabs had the biggest empire.