Oh come on! At one point, through almost an accident of history, our country was still able to make things, build things, and pump out babies while the rest of the organized world had to reassemble their firebombed and nuked cities.
I can't imagine wearing a hat saying anyone was right about everything. That is partially because these hats are all hideous, unfashionable garbage, but mostly because no person is ever right about everything.
I feel like I was there at the genesis of this one. Originally, people used tables for layout because there was nothing else. Dreamweaver and similar wysiwyg editors that code-o-phobes used those days produced table hellish markup that looked reasonable to people on screens with fixed resolutions, but was absolutely abysmal as far as legibility and maintenance.
Then, over time, people righteously hated that and called it an anti-pattern. The original people that wanted semantic layouts and championed CSS in the early days had nuance, but the kiddos learning from them did not. So they thought it was "tables bad!" and they rushed off to please their senior devs by putting tabular data into complicated bullshit elements that were already semantically correct as tables.
The real problem is with the way elections work. Any third party started in this system that's successful will wind up being absorbed by or absorbing one of the other two.
That won't matter. Discus comments are tied to people's real identities in most cases and that didn't stop them from posting unhinged bullshit underneath every story.
I also have issues with trusting people but only because I've met some of them.