I believe most of these people are not lying. There are far more profitable ways to grift on youtube. As for people doing the right thing - it goes both ways. We have seen the deep state and the stuff they do to kids. There is no way we can say that all people are mostly good. There are some seriously demented psychopathic individuals and there is no getting past that.

As far as Xi is concerned, Scott has made it clear that it is his conjecture that Xi is a white hat. He has never said that it has been confirmed by any of his sources. So its not so much whether he is lying as whether his logic is sound. But your point about MSM painting Xi as really bad is a good point. I need to look at his actions from that viewpoint and see how it fits in.