Your comment appears to half 'attack' the commenter above and half 'attack' Bezmenov, while not saying much. If the use of 'crack-pot' was in reference to Bezmenov, I reccommend first watching his longer (hour-plus) classroom talk from the early 80s, also on Youtube. The main message and content is clear enough, and saying the current empire will fall is far from saying 'the moon is made of cheese'.
1) I wasn't intending to attack Bezmenov. I haven't heard his message, so I can't pass any kind of judgement/opinion on it.
2) My intent was to lodge my dislike of statements such as:
People don't believe X, but it's ok because X said
that no one would believe him/her.
I viewed it (possibly falsely) as using lack of belief as validation of the message itself. [ This can be done even if the messenger didn't intend for the audience to use his/her statements this way, so it's not necessarily an attack against him/her. ]
3) It (to me) has similarities to statements like:
<statement 1> is true! <opposing group> might try
to distract you by saying <statement 2>, but don't
believe them because it's all lies!
[ Note: I'm not saying that Bezmenov made any such statements, or that such statements are in his character. ]
