Trying to overthrow Assad and Syria has been happening since at least about 2011 under Obama, and so has the U.S. government demonizing Russia (besides the whole cold war and McCarthyism in the 50s). So why can't people see this without connecting the dots to the Russia talk today and Trump?
"So why can't people see this without connecting the dots to the Russia talk today and Trump?"
CIA program within a collaboration with main stream media, perception management, that's why. For every one of these truth tellers Dore exposed on MSNBC, they have a dozen who are willing to tow the agenda of the deep state. As Dore rightly expressed when the Admiral came on, his job was to make everyone listening to forget what the professor had stated. First the intelligence agency turned journalist into spy like operatives. Today the intelligence agents are part of the journalist panels. Every main stream media tv outlet today has their X agents, military experts, and or analysis who are now paid well to go on tv and spew the lies of the agenda towards world dominance. This reminds me of a day in 2015 when Robert Parry was on On Point. An NPR talk show talking about a book Parry had out on the how journalism has changed over the years. But when your program spends a mere 47 minutes covering the truth compared to hours in each month spewing untruths, as Tom Ashbrook did well, your untruths are most likely what the public walks away with.
I know but critical thinking is a lost art it seems. In the day of the internet, there are no more excuses for swallowing the mainstream narrative. When I first started finding out about political bull and establishment narrative, it was a couple of years after 9/11 when I graduated college. When I saw something on the news, I did nothing but research and read and determine what was bullshit from what seemed to be the best truth. It doesn't take too long either. Even if it's just 30 minutes a day. When something doesn't sound right, I research it.