Disinformation
I continue to be appalled at people using the word ‘disinformation’. They tend to be people with a firm grasp of policy and politics. They also tend to helplessly describe their opponents as fools and mountebanks, shrugging at their failure to accept their higher wisdom.
My response is only ‘You’re not entitled to use that word. It’s a made-up word from a different context. You are searching for the word “lie”, and you really need to start using that instead. A lie is something said, true or false, with the intent to deceive. If it’s a lie, we know the right response: call out the deception, and discuss alternatives more closely aligned with good understanding.
But you’re not doing that, and the reason is easy to understand: you have relied too much on expertise which is not real, though with lovely credentials, and we don’t trust you to know what you’re talking about.
Think harder about your dismissive attitude towards the intelligence of others, and accept that you have a way to go before we’re going to take your word on something. Learn to argue, to state your case with reasons, not citations to experts, and describe the logic of your opponents well enough that we believe you understand them, before you try to show the flaws in their case. Don’t dismiss them all as mindless drones because they disagree with you. Accept facts they can show and build your argument with those included.
Then we will accept your argument, and may, in turn, engage those parts of your understanding that are incomplete, which need to be discussed, too.
You’re already in the hole from your prior arguments, which might have sounded good from a political standpoint, but failed to persuade because they were not trying to persuade, but bully people into compliance. Unless you reform, get ready to be ignored.