Posted on 12/05/2020 4:58:16 AM PST by EyesOfTX
How does America come back from all of this? How does our country recover from the last five years of rank media fakery, Democrat depravity and China Virus mendacity?
I was asked that question this week on my regular appearance with 93.1 FM afternoon talk show host Greg Budell, who blessedly provides the people of Montgomery, Alabama with a brilliant alternative to listening to Sean Besmirched Bought and Paid For Captain Tick Tock Hannity.
My terse reply was, we don’t. Not in any real sense, anyway.
That’s also how a more expansive answer begins this morning. America doesn’t recover from all of this, folks. It can’t, for the simple fact that our society has lost two fundamental foundations that are absolutely necessary in order for our constitutional republican system to work:
The first and most fundamental of those is the assumption by the founding fathers that positions of political power would be filled by people who actually love this country. Men like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Jay and Ben Franklin weren’t at all naive about human nature: They knew that politicians as a class would tend towards corruption and graft and greed. That is as it has always been and as it always will be.
But even the greedy and corrupt can still love the country and want it to survive and prosper, and that is the assumption that has been lost within the Democrat Party today, the Democrats in the House of Representatives being the most stark example.
The House Democrat caucus today consists of several distinct classes:
– A leadership class typified by greedy grifters like San Fran Nan, who have become fabulously wealthy while profiting from their positions of power;
– Race baiters like Sheila Jackson Lee, who line their pockets with money collected from the poorest of the poor in their districts;
– Hoax and conspiracy mongers like Adam Schiff who are still lying about Russia collusion and have no scruples that might prevent them from holding the country hostage for half a year to a completely made-up impeachment hoax; and
– Marxist radicals like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her “squad,” who also manage somehow to become fabulously wealthy, prancing around in $2,000 dresses while pushing frauds like the Green New Deal that would bankrupt the country.
No one in that House Democrat caucus has the best interests of the country in mind. Their sole driving interest is the acquisition and maintenance of political power that can be leveraged for their personal gain. As we have witnessed in this stolen election via massive voter fraud, the entire Democrat Party today is nothing but a huge organized crime operation, and the entire country is its victims.
This increasingly and overwhelmingly corrupt behavior by the Democrats should surprise no one. I’ve been writing for more than 30 years about the fact that politicians who have no moral scruples nor any fear of ever being held accountable for their actions will always become increasingly depraved and corrupt over time. It is simple human nature.
This brings us to the second fundamental foundation of American society that has been completely lost: A functioning news media establishment.
The founders envisioned that a free press would collectively serve as America’s Fourth Estate, a watch dog that protected the public interest by working to hold people in positions of power accountable by exposing their depravity and mendacity. The drafters of the Bill of Rights believed a free and functioning press was so crucial to maintaining the American Republic that they enshrined freedom of the press in the Constitution’s very first amendment.
They weren’t naive about the press of their time: They knew some media outlets would be biased and corrupt, but also believed the press as a whole would serve its intended function in our society, because exposing political corruption, regardless of party, sells newspapers.
That assumption held and the system worked right up until the point at which big, diverse, international corporations and billionaires began buying up the nation’s major media outlets. Today, well over 90% of the national mainstream media outlets are owned by six or seven huge corporations whose senior leadership is firmly globalist in nature. They all detest Donald Trump and his supporters with a passion and reward their media people for tailoring their coverage in ways that do him harm, often functioning at the direct behest of their financial benefactors in China.
Worse, corporate behemoths like AT&T, Comcast and Disney use their media subsidiaries like CNN, NBC and ABC as loss leaders within their corporate umbrellas, and don’t give a damn about audience size or profitability. Every incentive to employees in those media operations encourages corrupt and biased behavior that ends up creating hyper-focus on Trump and his fellow Republicans and aggressive efforts to avoid negative reporting about Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats.
Even worse than all of that is the fact that the freedom of the press enshrined in the first amendment and the interpretations of that clause by the federal courts over the past 231 years, combined with corporate ownership that does not care about profitability, means that there is basically no way for the public to hold the media accountable for its mendacity. Just as is true with politicians, corrupt journalists who have no fear of being held accountable for false reporting, and are in fact rewarded for it, will only become increasingly corrupt and dishonest. Again, simple human nature.
Thus, with a media class that has no fear of accountability refusing to cover a Democrat political class that has no fear of being held accountable, neither of which possessing a shred of love of country, the country will inevitably continue to spin out of control until it collapses or dissolves into a second civil war.
That is how we get to a situation in which a presidential election has literally been stolen in plain sight by one political party and the media establishment joins its arms in unison in abject refusal to cover the biggest political scandal in U.S. history, despite the enormous audience and profits real coverage would invariably bring.
How does America recover from this?
It doesn’t.
That is all.
I am starting to feel like we (true American patriots — about half this country) are a conquered people. We are no longer citizens, but subjects. Citizens have a right to vote and choose their leaders, but that right has been stolen from us in plain view for all to see.
Islamists are also moving into positions of power within the government, such as part of “the squad”, and that attorney general in Minnesota. Not to mention the previous 8 years of Imam OBastard, who is about to get a third term as Sperm Bank Harris’s puppeteer.
Also, the majority of the GOP are no different from the DemonicRats.
I thought 1984 was bad, but this was a central system.
No, this is worse, this is a media wide groupi adulation of 1984ish behavior without need of a tyrannical state to enforce it.
It is absolutely nuts the level of reality detachment we are witnessing.
AOC is a a prime example of reality denying idiot, little Marie Antoinettes prancing around in $2000 dresses who indeed have mocking despise for people who work and enjoy more reality.
Not a question of if... it’s a question of when.
I do believe Trump will win his second term.
I do believe he will drain the swamp.
However, what is said here is undeniable... so All bets are off after that.
Oh boy, sure to bring out the Eeyores this morning, eh?
Yes, these RINOs living outside reality, as if it can be business as usual with democrats, thinking it is Trump who is polarizing, are a bunch of princess cowards on a level of AOC imo.
Exactly the reason this country needs to split. The 50-state status quo is not doable anymore.
CHINA is the glue that binds the UniParty into its Faustian contracts
That sht started with Mueller under Bush, right after 911, inviting CAIR at the FBI.
Traitors.
The Declaration of Independence tells you how. It’s your duty as an American to throw the bums out again if they get tyrannical. We’re way past that point now.
Long ago. The political parties are a barrier to entry. The public gets to choose between pre-approved globalists, although sometimes a non-approved candidate gets in. The vote is a sham. We are ruled because the public allows itself to be cowed and ruled by hollow and false platitudes such as "rule of law."
May our chains rest lightly. The people aren't going to assert their power in a meaningful way. They'll vent, of course, but any significant threat will be put down with force of violence from the ruling class.
Yep. Lincoln should have split. Instead he offered the whole united states to the terrorist democrat party which already had the south hostage.
RINOs to this day still do it. They think the dumbocraps will behave if we give them everything. They are NUTS!
That is why they cheated on the scale that they did, because they KNEW the people would not rise up to stop them. And, we haven't. We can't. We have to go to work. We have to pay OUR bills. They don't have the moral foundation and work ethic that many of us do. We are not willing to kill over politics. We only will kill in self-defense. Liberal leftists on the other hand DO kill over politics and are readily willing to do so. That is the ONLY reason they would attack a young man carrying a loaded AR-15, because they BELIEVED that he would NOT kill them. Since he was so solid in his convictions that people should not be allowed to destroy private property, he DID go to a protest/riot and ended up having to defend his life. However, that is NOT the norm for conservatives and the radical left knows it.
I have had a friend who is a liberal, lives a state where I used to live, is 73 years old, and is telling me conservatives will NOT do anything about the election fraud, they will just try to move on. Had a lady tell me yesterday (can't give details) that this is a nice small town community and people are just going to get along after all of this (she is a liberal leftist). Others I know from church who are closet liberals say the same thing. Unfortunately, those people are correct.
I believe China has operatives here who have thoroughly researched all of this and also know the facts and have been funneling money to groups that support the radical leftist agenda KNOWING it will destroy the United States from the inside. Our sins are causing all of this to happen and no one wants to hear that.
1984 squared.
Yep. And, they are chomping at the bit to do so, just WAITING for the opportunity.
Time to Don the Yellow Vests! The Frenchmen that are made fun of here.
Yep. The "come on" rhetoric is different, but below is just as true for the GOP wing of the ruling class ...
No one in that House Democrat caucus has the best interests of the country in mind. Their sole driving interest is the acquisition and maintenance of political power that can be leveraged for their personal gain.
This is what tyrants do...and half the hypocritical country is celebrating.
If only THEY would suffer for their evil choice, instead of us, too.
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