A Correct Opinion

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This is just an opinion piece from a right wing publication, but I like it because it closely resembles my own opinion, which reminds me of a story.

I was on the staff of our high school newspaper for one semester, my first semester at Gage Park High.  Students were usually not allowed to write for the paper until after they had taken journalism in their junior year, but I was so smart that they put me on it right from the start.  I didn't ask for this assignment, and I don't remember that they even asked me, they just put me on it.  One day, the teacher who supervised the paper, Mrs. Kew, asked me to write an editorial, so I wrote one and turned it in.  Next day Mrs. Kew told me that she wasn't going to publish my editorial because it was "just an opinion".  I responded that I thought that all editorials were just opinions.  She said that was true, but that this opinion was not acceptable because it was not her opinion.  I said that, if she wanted to express her opinion, she should have written the article herself.  She then told me, "Let's put it this way, this is not a correct opinion."  She never asked me to write an editorial again, and I opted out of the school newspaper at the end of the semester.

I joined the Birchers back in the day because I had heard they were fanatical anti-communists.  Turned out that they believed the government of Communist Russia, the government of the United States, and all the multi-national corporations were being run by the same people, an international conspiracy that the Birchers called the "Insiders".  They had traced the origin of the Insiders back to the Order of the Illuminati, an organization that spun off of the Masons back in the 18th Century.  It made sense to me at the time because my military experience had left me with the impression that the Russian government and the U.S. government were all in it together.  I have since come to the conclusion that, while the powers that be are certainly all in it, they are probably not all in it together.  If they were, the world would not be the inefficient, dysfunctional, and chaotic place that it is today.