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.
Nope.. a split is necessary.. Spain was invaded from without.. the threat to our national existence is from the infestation of liberal ideology. We hate them and they hate us. There is NOTHING that will bring about unity in this country, which is critical to nationhood. We had a good run, but the current arrangement is untenable.
Only the Tree of Liberty can cure what Democrats have made in America. It’s going to need to be watered.
+1000.
Given Fredo Cuomo’s and Donna Lamoan’s statements, and Mika’s comments just the other day, I wholeheartedly agree. +1000%!!
“Centrist?”
Like hell.
Since we don’t fight...we lose.
The leader of Americans is Trump.
When Trump loses his courage and decides to NOT fight this and put it down, there is nobody to step in to the vacuum and take up leadership to put it down.
The Globalist/Left/Dem Axis is evil and is doing what it does.
In the end, we don’t recover because we won’t fight. And we won’t fight because our leader won’t fight.
In one Tweet, Trump could call up ten million militia and we can get going putting this coup out completely.
But he won’t.
America is then done. The Oligarchy wins.
We’re Americans. We’ll do it much faster.
It can’t. When the government can do whatever it wants, and you need their permission to have a party at your house, it’s over.
It's all or nothing.
We hate them and they hate us. There is NOTHING that will bring about unity in this country.
We don't unity. We'll take back the land and drive them out.
bump
Correct. Feckless crap-weasels have sold themselves and America out, in favor of getting rich.
“And God is mightier than ALL of that.
Pray.
Petition the Lord with prayer.”
Maybe our best shots. I saw someone give testimony yesterday and I’m not sure she understand what she saw. About God’s hand sweeping over the land using vipers to take down these vermin.
But I believe if we pray hard and ask for His forgiveness for the sins of this country, He can show us mercy.
CHINA is the glue that binds the UniParty. The mission of the UniParty has been to seed advocates for the CCP throughout a multitude of Federal agencies and state and local governments since the 1990’s. By virtue of the carrot or the stick. Silver or Lead etc.
The “Price” for China continuing to purchase and absorb Fed.gov debt paperover the last 30-40 years-when no one else could or would-at the yields Fed.gov expected.
unfortunately it appears We the People increasingly have only one of 2 choices-acquiesce or commence the laborious and long process of pulling the weeds.
Yep, and the money press is going to roll the next 4 years as Joe/Kamala start their deadbeat giveaways.
I gave up on Sean Hannity over 2 years ago...
The democrats have aborted George Bailey and we no longer live in America (Bedford Falls) and we are now living in Sorosville (Potersville).
Amen! To answer Rodney King, “no we can’t get along.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” John Adams
Once the communist-inspired 1960s hippies took over all reaches of the federal government, local government, the print and TV media, K-12 schools, Universities, and labor unions, it was over.
We have not had a moral or religious people for a very long time. Oh, we have a large minority of moral and religious people. Maybe 30%. But the other 70% roughly are not. John Adams was crystal clear what was required of the electorate. I tell young people our morals have decayed, and they can’t see it. They don’t want to believe it.
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