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Posted on 07/24/2018 3:11:31 AM PDT by servo1969
You and I are living through the greatest mass hysteria in American history. For many Americans, the McCarthy era held that dubious distinction, but what is happening now is incomparably worse.
For one thing, any hysteria that existed then was directed against the greatest evil in the world at the time: communism. Then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee notwithstanding, there really were Americans in important positions who supported communist regimes enslaving their populations and committing mass murder. McCarthy was on to something.
In contrast, the country is choking on hysteria over the extremely unlikely possibility -- for which there is still no evidence -- that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, and the absurdity that President Trump works for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For another, the mainstream media did not support McCarthy. Most in the media were highly critical of McCarthy. Today, the mainstream media are not the voices of caution. They are the creators of the hysteria. There have been conspiracy theories throughout American history (e.g. Lee Harvey Oswald didn't kill President John F. Kennedy alone; the moon landing never happened). But this is the first time the media have created and promoted a conspiracy. Not surprisingly, they have dropped any pretense of objective reporting in the process.
And while some Americans were unfairly labeled communists during the McCarthy era, countless Democratic politicians and leaders in news and entertainment have called members of the Trump administration and the tens of millions of Americans who support the president fascists, white supremacists, haters, xenophobes and even Nazis.
MSNBC contributor Jill Wine-Banks said of the Trump-Putin Helsinki press conference: "It's just as serious to me as the Cuban Missile Crisis in terms of an attack, or the 9/11 attack. ... (Trump's) performance today will live in infamy as much as the Pearl Harbor attack or Kristallnacht."
Former communist, Obama operative and CIA Director John Brennan tweeted: "Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was nothing short of treasonous."
The constant invoking of the Holocaust, the Nazis and now Kristallnacht (the unofficial beginning of the Holocaust, a night in 1938 when German Jews were beaten to death, synagogues were burned and Jewish shops were destroyed) only minimizes the evils of Nazism and the Holocaust. A young American who, having gone to a typical university, probably knows nothing about the Nazis and the Holocaust will now think Nazism and the Holocaust were 20th-century expressions of Trump and American conservatism.
All this hysteria is built on next to nothing. At its core, it is an attempt to undo the 2016 election. The mainstream media refuse to accept that Hillary Clinton lost. They said she would win -- handily. They predicted a landslide. How could they have possibly gotten it so wrong? Their answer is they didn't; Trump and Putin stole it.
If truth mattered to the media, their ongoing narrative would be: "Democrats and the left still do not accept Trump victory."
If truth mattered to the media, every American would know Trump has been harder on Russia than former President Barack Obama was. Every American would be reminded that Obama reassured Putin's right-hand man, then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, that he wouldn't be too tough on Russia. Thinking his mic was off, he whispered into Medvedev's ear: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
If truth mattered to the media, every American would be reminded that Obama sent Army meals to Ukraine and Trump has sent anti-tank missiles and other arms to repel the Russians.
If truth mattered to the media, every American would be reminded that Obama watched Syria burn and Russia come to dominate that country, while Trump has bombed Syrian military installations, including one where Russians were killed.
If truth mattered to the media, every American would be reminded that it is Trump who has weakened Russia's ally Iran, while Obama immeasurably strengthened it.
Instead the media scream "treason," "impeachment" and the like 24/7; Hollywood stars curse the president; others curse his daughter or the first lady (one of the most regal in American history) and show President Trump in various death poses. Meanwhile, leftist mobs shout at administration officials and Republican members of Congress while they eat in restaurants, shop in stores and sleep in their homes.
If you vote Democrat this November, you are voting for hysteria, lies, socialism and even the cheapening of the Holocaust.
But more than anything, a vote for Democrats in November is a vote for hysteria -- the greatest and darkest in American history.
‘They said she would win — handily. They predicted a landslide.’
all they had to do to disabuse themselves of that notion was simply note the RCP election model in the last few weeks of the campaign; they would have seen Clinton projected to win 273 EV’s, down from 350 or so and dropping like the proverbial rock...another week or two and Trump would have been projected to win a narrow victory...
Even Nate Silver, in late October, showed Trump with about a 40% chance to win; way up from his midsummer projection of 11%, causing his normally fawning minions to swear and cuss at him...
Why does is matter if Dennis Prager WAS a NeverTrumper???
Two kinds of people hate TRUTH: the delusional and the guilty.
The magnitude of their hysteria is a measure of their resistance to TRUTH.
The magnitude of their resistance to TRUTH is a measure of their fear of TRUTH.
Theirs is a HOUSE OF CARDS (!). TRUTH will send it crashing down. They know this. They cannot let this happen!
They cannot allow their evil and mendacity to be exposed. That's why they hate TRUTH so passionately.
They will stop at NOTHING. Expect the worst.
To stop TRUTH from exposing their evil and mendacity, NOTHING will be too vicious, too violent, too ruthless! They will protect their evil, the greatest evil imaginable will be unleashed!
They are cornered rats!
Prepare for the worst!
Dennis is getting a bit carried away.
Polls show only about 1% of Americans list RussiaRussiaRussia™ as a concern.
Most of them live in Prager’s neck of the woods.
LMAO!
Probably because I cut my cable and do not get exposed to the CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc., nonsense. I also don't read any mainstream media newspapers or go to their websites.
I keep up with the news through curated social media feeds (this site being one of them), Breitbart, Twitter, Reddit, some FoxNews and maybe peek in on the Drudge Report a few times a day.
During my normal day, I see no hysteria. Nobody in the workplace is hysterical. Nobody out in the streets, at the shopping places, at the beaches, on the roads, etc., are in "hysteria."
I just don't see it.
So my prescription to the rest of you is to cut your cable. Today. Tune out the mainstream media. Your life will be much less stressful, I guarantee it.
Thanks servo1969.
It just occurred to me that the hysteria of the American progressives strongly resembles the actions of a jilted paramour. Historically, the progressive left has enjoyed the complete support of “Russia” (i.e. the Soviet Union). It appears that such is no longer the case, and the progressives are pitching a hissy-fit over it.
That David Hogg is 17. Why are adults even paying so much attention to what some kid is saying?
They don’t pay attention....
However the Demorat journalists and pundits USE these kids just like the Democrat party does to carry their agendas...same with protests and the like. Kids today are ‘very’ easily mis-led so the media likes to keep these dingbats pushing the Demorat agenda.
More Salem NeverTrump agitprop
The media is beyond corrupt.
It would be fun to stalk the members of the media and constantly bother them in restaurants like they support the Dem activists doing to GOPers.
So are adults.
Rush just reported that two thirds of registered Democrats believe that Trump has committed Treason. Not just maybe treason, they believe he has actually committed Treason.
Dan, I have no beef with you.
IMO < a person is either a Conservative in their belly or they are not.
I don’t know a single Conservative that could actually tolerate helping Hillary Clinton by the continual trashing of her only opponent.
I wouldn’t/couldn’t do that for a split second.
This guy within our ranks in the trenches, called in our position to the enemy until mid-September 2016.
I don’t wish to fight another battle with him in our ranks.
All the best to you.
I would agree. If one only has time for one book on this subject it is the one. In passing someone pointed out JFK and his acolyte's almost made a cottage industry out of hailing his heroic endeavors after navigating his torpedo boat into the path of a Japanese destroyer while Joe McCarthey who actually flew multiple combat missions as a Marine aviator was relentlessly mocked as ‘Tailgunner Joe’ for using his war time service as part of his campaign propaganda. McCarthey risked his life every time he flew a mission and not just from enemy action. The number of US and allied aircraft that just ‘failed to return’ in the Pacific are legion and some of their wrecks are still being found on mountainsides in Melanesia.
His mommy works for CNN.
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