Misinformation from our own government has been influncing the deaths of millions from Vietnam, to the Civil Rights Movement, to the War on Terror. It also played a role in establishing NSA domestic surveillance, among a host of other problems. The plutocracy spends billions on information warfare across elections. I've yet to see an article headline mainstream media complaining of plutocrats and Wall St bankers like Gary Cohn in charge of US tax policy. This same corporate media has deep and proven links with the CIA. Also, the DNC used deception and subvertion against their constituents' candidate in favor of their own. Then you even have institutionalized crony influences like Al Franken giving his super delegate to Clinton when Bernie had over 60% of his constituents' votes. And Russian social media influence and ads has also been linked to extreme left propaganda such as anti-fa.
Protecting democracy is important, but we can't just only do it when it is convenient.
I'm inspired by Greenwald's articles, along this same line of thinking.[1]
1 - https://static.theintercept.com/amp/the-deep-state-goes-to-w...