Nightwind777 wrote an interesting post titled, "It's Time To Call a Spade a Spade."
Perhaps another way to say that would be, "so how do you police your own?" (Spoiler alert, but I think you police your own just as Nightwind has, you bring it up in the marketplace of ideas and you denounce a concept or behavior. Ha, than you just wait patiently for people to catch on until hell freezes over.) However, things do get a bit more complicated when you have the media, Big Tech, publishing companies, and Hollywood involved and busy picking the winners, losers, and influencers for us.
One cure for this problem is to refuse to outsource our critical thinking skills.
I've spent about ten years trying to solve this riddle, no closer to an answer then when I first started. I should mention that it isn't really a partisan issue or even really a political one. I mean, there is just something about human nature and our innate tribalism that often serves to create this blind spot where we elevate and idolize people, and refuse to see their flaws. They also tickle our ears, they say what we want to hear, or they feed what we want to entertain or indulge, so that too often plays a role.
Anyway, this is an issue that's been on my plate of concerns for a while now.
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