I’m not a conspiracy nut – I don’t believe in the
Illuminati, the New World Order, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or other
theories about shadowy groups bent on world domination.
However, I recognize obvious propaganda. Right now we’re
awash in it.
Mostly that’s because it’s an election year. So there’s more
than the usual amount of news coverage about the pay gap between women and men,
the pay gap between blacks and whites, the education and graduation gap between
blacks and whites, the rising cost of a college education, the burden of
student loans, white privilege, black incarceration rates, people struggling to
get by on minimum wage jobs, the rights of transgender people to use restrooms and
locker rooms based on how they self-identify rather than physiology, and
families torn apart by immigration laws.
Coincidence? I don’t
think so.
These are all Liberal Democrat/Socialist issues. The
enhanced coverage is intended to remind their base what this election is all
about: discrimination, class warfare, and racism.
You won’t hear or see much about the state of the economy
and our growing national debt or the dramatic drop in household income during
the Obama years. There’s also scant coverage about making Social Security and
Medicare solvent, the soaring unemployment rate among blacks, the probable loss
of entry-level jobs from raising the minimum wage, our porous borders, how
illegal immigrants are displacing American workers, crimes committed by illegal
immigrants, the abuse and waste in our government, and fraud in our
entitlements programs.
Perhaps it’s because these are all Conservative Republican
issues.
Granted, these aren’t as sexy as pointing out how unfair the
system is to everyone except rich white heterosexual males – and make no
mistake, this group is the bête noir
for Liberals.
For good drama you need a hero and a villain and Liberal Democrats
always do drama well. They are the heroes fighting for everyone who feels
somebody else – the villain – is better off than them. Their base believes this
is unfair and Liberal Democrats will fix it.
Of course Liberal Democrats can’t. And of course they wouldn’t anyway even if
they could. Without their base of perpetual victims they’d never get elected. The
Republican Party and conservatives are the villain, and an easy target. If the Republican Party ceased to exist,
which is becoming a possibility, Liberal Democrats would have to create its
successor just to have someone to blame and to run against.
So sure, Republicans are their near-perfect bad guys for now.
But so are gun owners, anybody religious (except followers of Islam – “the
religion of peace”), business owners, cops, and conservatives in general. Everything
is black and white; good or evil.
The worst of the villains to Liberal Democrats are the gender
and race traitors. Woe unto anyone who is a woman, gay, or black who espouses
conservative views or has the audacity to openly proclaim themselves Republicans;
they are anathema, heretics, and must be destroyed.
Their friends in the media are more than happy to help.
The same media friends make sure their audiences are
constantly reminded of what’s wrong in America. Just watch the nightly news on
any of the big-three networks, or visit CNN.com or NBCNews.com. You’ll see a
never-ending telenovela about social injustice, gun violence, bad cops,
discrimination, gender bias and everything else the media feel the audience
should care most about.
When the media make decisions on what’s most important for
their audience to care about, as opposed to simply know about, that’s
propaganda, not reporting news.
Is it a coincidence that one of the networks has scheduled
an interview with Anita Hill – of the Clarence Thomas hearings 25 years ago –
right now? At a time when Hillary’s running on a campaign of attracting women
in general and blacks in particular?
And
at a time when Obama is pushing to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court that
could shift the balance of power to liberals for decades.
Ask yourself: Is Anita Hill really newsworthy? Now?
I don't think so. Just more propaganda.
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