Hey— I've been in this position before, genuinely. I fully empathize with you.
When you're questioning something, I think it's best to take a step back and flip the script.
Imagine we're in a bizarro world and the exact opposite scenario from what's currently happening is playing out: The liberals (though some are DINOs) and progressives are the only good guys and the conservative RINOs are the bad guys. MAGAs are the equivalent of today's progressive antifa.
The progressives just lost an election to an establishment #swamp candidate, and they're pulling out the exact same evidence from the same types of sources that pedes have in the real world. And they're posting on message boards like this with the exact same messages, solely flipping the names "Donald Trump" and "Joe Biden." The only difference is that you start as a neutral party.
Then, evaluate their evidence and sources. The goal here is just to ascertain how confident you are in the progressive's evidence. If their evidence is reliable, you should be able to be comfortable in the exact same conclusions you've reached in bizarro world as you did in the real world. Because evidence is evidence.
Finally, if you're interested, here's little online game about recognizing fake news: https://www.getbadnews.com/#next Hope this helps you feel at all better!
Hey— I've been in this position before, genuinely. I fully empathize with you.
When you're questioning something, I think it's best to take a step back and flip the script.
Imagine we're in a bizarro world and the exact opposite scenario from what's currently happening is playing out: The liberals (though some are DINOs) and progressives are the only good guys and the conservative RINOs are the bad guys. MAGAs are the equivalent of today's progressive antifa.
The progressives just lost an election to an establishment #swamp candidate, and they're pulling out the exact same evidence from the same types of sources that pedes have in the real world. And they're posting on message boards like this with the exact same messages, solely flipping the names "Donald Trump" and "Joe Biden." The only difference is that you start as a neutral party.
Then, evaluate their evidence and sources. The goal here is just to ascertain how confident you are in the progressive's evidence. If their evidence is reliable, you should be able to be comfortable in the exact same conclusions you've reached in bizarro world as you did in the real world. Because evidence is evidence.
Finally, if you're interested, here's little online game about recognizing fake news: https://www.getbadnews.com/#next Hope this helps you feel at all better!