How is discovering and discussing the backgrounds of people running things not relevant to an informal discussion of the current events? I was quite intrigued

How is discovering and discussing the backgrounds of people running things not relevant to an informal discussion of the current events? I was quite intrigued by this Wikipedia article below. > The Weather Underground was a radical left wing militant organization... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground I also had some fun researching how the CIA (I thought was probably) involved in all of this. Found some stuff on Wikispooks.com about Chesa Boudin and also this comment (and more) from [1]: > The whole Weather Underground was a project of Cointelpro-New-Left. The idea was to brand students as radical and violent marxists and put out propaganda about them to break up genuine student organizing in opposition to the Vietnam War. It’s a classic guilt-by-association strategy – by labeling progressive policies as “Crazy San Francisco” it causes a reactionary policy implementation almost everywhere else. Boudin is so obviously CIA as was Gascon and now we have yet another phony CIA culture war that gets everyone outraged, divided, and distracted. [1] https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/san-francisco-da-blames-system-for-parolees-hit-and-run-killing-2-pedestrians/ https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/san-francisco-da-blame...