How Does America Recover From This? It Doesn’t.

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.

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.

– 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.

...Eeyores...
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As someone who has been accused of being Pollyanna, I have to at least nod to the Eeyores.

Just look at the calm among the progs as they continue divvying up the cultural and financial and other spoils of stolen and appropriated power.

This is precisely what they desire and they are just peachy-keen with it. They have no memory of freedom and despise it.
Those who applaud their theft of power will continue as long as they can afford the trappings they associate with the Good Life.

Thinking about it, it devolves down to utter irresponsibility.

No community, just virtual affinity groups you can dip in and out of.

No family, just quickly-dissolved zipless f***s and all the chemical and surgical erasures of progeny available.

No real experiences, just a panoply of ways to alter consciousness.

No morality, just empty virtue signals that require nothing more than a collection of slogans.

No personal growth except the accumulation of likes for artfully filtered cellphone pics taken on a closely-cropped set and displayed on an approved platform.

No intellectual wrestling with ideas and philosophy, just the appropriation of marketed content squeezed of every vestige of actual critical thought.

No knowledge of events and their consequences that hasn’t been massaged and predigested before being released in the same form as all digested sustenance, albeit polished & deodorized to perfection. Worse, an inculcated aversion to any raw or opposing perceptions that sends the recipients into catatonic fits of denial.

No artistic skills requiring practice, refinement and critique, just templates to fill, boxes to check and programed filters to apply. Sight and sound collages manipulated with predetermined programs, homage to 3rd-tier re-recreations, words arranged according to political dictates and consumed like unbuttered, unsalted popcorn to fill interior voids and looming stretches of time spent, by agreed diktat, under house arrest.

No property to maintain and eventually own as an asset or collateral, just a series of neutral rental spaces quickly decorated with featureless boxes and barely maintained, ranked by proximity to pricey public spaces and valued for shared amenities.

No God, just petty deities dispensing baubles in exchange for meaningless ritual at the level of a yoga class.

Perpetual children outsourcing their lives to virtual simulations that include those sitting in committee and making decisions for the rest.

If you reference the ways of our shared past, even just those of the past 30 years, the response is a dull boredom. a perfunctory condescension and, mostly, incomprehension.

This generation has no interest in anything more than a week in duration or related to anything except their own appetites and image.

The author is right: we will not recover. A majority have no concept of recovering, anyway. They are thrilled to turn their backs on all the past and march in concert into the abyss. They disregard the concept of a future.

Just think: it took until the 1200s for the secondary rulers (barons) to make a contract with the monarchs for a few rights and privileges.

In the next 400 years, there were finally some acknowledgements of the idea of rights for the common human being.

It took another 125 years to achieve the US Constitution and around double that time for the old feudal ways to reassert themselves.

I do wonder how long this incarnation of bondage will last?

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