With all these accusations and counter accusations, what is a poor soul to think? It seems to me that actions speak louder than words (as long as those actions can be verified) meaning that one should try to emulate the actions and directions of Our Lord and Saviour and let the Machiavellian schemes of the speculators, promoting either this champion or that champion, just blow past in the wind.
Funny you should say, "
what is a poor soul to think". Because thinking is the only solution.
I'm sorry if you have to apply your brain and think. As Bishop Williamson famously parodied, "I don't want to have to think. It
huuuuuurts."
It's not a mystery that we can't solve (like, "When do the highest-level Freemasons intend to start WW3?"). Unless you have a spy at the Bilderberg meetings, you're not going to know the detailed plans of the Elite. The different Traditional groups, however, you CAN sort out, using common sense, reason, logic, and the virtue of Prudence.
Our Lord gave us advice: judge them by their fruits. He also said NOT to judge according to appearances, but to "judge just judgments". For example, you could walk past 2 men apparently "involved in a fight" but one of them (the one with a black eye) was completely passive and innocent, while the other was the sole instigator of the violence. Would it be a just judgment to accuse the TWO men of "fighting"? No, of course not.
It's not all up for grabs. There is an objective truth. Truth can be known and seized by the human mind, using the faculty of reason. We are not modern philosophers who deny the ability of the human mind to grasp objective truth.