You might want to ask yourself how an Air Force veteran ended up in a mob storming the Capitol, though.

What - and who - pushed her into thinking it was the right thing to do.

You might want to consider that many people like her are still out there.

Crazy thought, but what if we started focusing our efforts on fighting the sources of disinformation that pushed Ashli over the edge.

What if we taught people how to spot propaganda -- especially from their own political side?

If you're left leaning - like me - consider left wing propaganda.

(What? There's no such thing!)

Sure there is. The left scares its voters, same as the right.

(Yeah, but we scare them about REAL crises, not racist nonsense.)

Hmm.

The core idea isn't about left vs right. It's about power, and manipulating people to obtain that power.

And no, I'm not saying that #BothSides practice this to the same degree.

I'm saying we all have blind spots when we agree with what's being said and who's saying it.

When you're inclined to believe some thing A, it might be easy to get you to believe a related thing B. Then thing C, and D, and so on.

Until eventually you believe thing Q.

And as crazy as thing Q is, there are a disturbingly large number of letters that come after it.