Gita Press
I set out to study the enemy. And I found it deep within.
Just kidding - a co-ordinated campaign to market a fundamentally different ideology and set of beliefs to people who neither asked for it nor wanted it.
May offer some explanation of how we landed up in this quagmire.
Of course the people take some blame for this - but just like Facebook meddling in places where they have no business meddling…….
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