I guess whoever you were replying to blocked you since the answer is just floating here is out of context.

I think you make a great point but don't apply it widely enough. Bad ideas need deception to sell them. So I'm always on guard whenever I find deception--the correlation isn't perfect, but when you find deception, it's reasonable to ask: is this one of those cases where it's because the underlying idea is bad?

The right is full of deception, absolutely. Lying about the election. Lying about climate change. Lying about CRT (Rufo flat out announces he's going to lie about it by using "CRT" as the label to gather every policy he doesn't like). This isn't "I have a difference of opinion, even though the facts seem to undermine my opinion", though that happens in each case too. But often it's just flat out lying. Dig a little bit and the underlying ideas about respect for voters, greed, and identity of who is allowed power are all pretty horrible.

Unfortunately, the left also is comfortable with a fair bit of deception, either willfully or through malign neglect. The amount of inaccurate information that the left spread about Rittenhouse was astonishing. The number of times the left ignored the almost unlimited number of lies and foolish things Trump said and made up new ones that weren't true left me baffled. And the left is growing to love more and more the idea of dogwhistles: some tiny little hint of some despicable viewpoint that very conveniently you never have to substantiate--you just assume the worst. Well, newsflash: even if dogwhistles are sometimes true (they are), the whole point of them is to make it hard to identify who is whom, so if you don't do the hard work you're going to make a ton of mistakes. That is, claims of dogwhistles without the hard work of proving what it is in this case is basically just deception.

So if you dig a bit, are there unsavory ideas that don't sell lying underneath the deceptions?

Either way, we're in quite a pickle. We have a system of government built on the premise that an informed population makes wise decisions, and increasing efforts to keep the population deluded.