Why Are So Many Leftists Skeptical of the Russia Investigation?

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96. You have to understand some of the history of left wing movements and the government.

For one thing, the whole "classification" of left/right has been fraught with problems since the beginning. For another, with Fox News and Right Wing radio calling everything to the left of their own politics "Radical Left" and "Liberal", their is intentional confusion of any political spectrum. That said, groups that had not really been in the mainstream Democratic/Republican constellation have had problems with the government, especially during the period after WWII when Communism was posed as the existential threat to the US.

The origins of the "Deep State" were from more leftist organizations. Groups like the Weather Underground, SNCC, and the Black Panther Party were under constant surveillance by intelligence agencies and the FBI. We do have to remember that J. Edgar Hoover had files on MLK, Malcolm X, and many other leaders of social justice movements who were deemed "disruptive to the existing social order". Those same agencies reluctantly went after the Klan, but not with the same zeal as they targeted groups on the left side of the spectrum.

There is a very small faction of people throughout modern US history that saw the USSR and later Russia as a counterweight to the Imperialism of the United States, including people like Noam Chomsky, though he typically saw the problems within the USSR and Russia as well. People like Greenwald, Stein, and the current crop of "leftist" agitators however, are more than likely paid shills for Russia and have painted themselves into a corner on their support. They have to be all in for Russia to establish a countervailing force against an American hegemony that they see as destructive, but to overlook Russia's own plans, not for some balanced power throughout the world but of their own dominance and the horrible things they have done to "be in second place" is dangerous. Russia is not more enlightened than the US. They will not stop at bringing the US down a peg.