Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Paid disrupters at Trump rallies – are you surprised?

I’m not, in the least. 

The far left has many faults but chief among these is not knowing – or caring – where the line is between right and wrong.

Inciting violence is always wrong, regardless of the “righteousness” of your cause. Intentionally manufacturing violence through paid provocateurs is even worse. When someone is paid to throw a punch, or a rock, or to get in someone’s face so they’ll react violently, the righteousness of whatever cause you think you’re supporting evaporates.

You become part of a criminal enterprise, paying thugs to do your dirty work. 

And that is what Democrat operatives have done. They recruited and paid homeless people to start fights at Trump rallies.  Then the media, always looking for video gold, would make the case for them that Trump supporters, and Trump’s words, inevitably spawn violence.   

The predictable storyline was that violent, hateful, racist, sexist bigots support Trump.

Just look at that Trump supporter get into it with someone waving a Mexican flag – just don’t show the part right before when that flag waver was screaming profanities at the Trump supporter and his wife. Look at that Trump supporter knocking down a protester – but edit out the part where the same protester was jabbing his finger into the Trump supporter’s chest, nose to nose and yelling in his face.  By all means, don’t show that clip of the protesters chasing down and beating the Trump supporter trying to get to his car after a rally.  Or when one of them sucker-punched a guy leaving a Trump rally and then dancing away laughing. 

Nope. Like it never happened.

Now we know that a lot of the violence the media showed was staged. There’s video of Democrat operatives describing how they did it. They even bragged how easy it was to find the homeless people, dress them up, and pay them to start fights at the rallies. The going rate was maybe $1500 and a smart phone or tablet and they were good to go. 

Dirty tricks have been a part of politics since the founding of our country.  But in my 50+ years of following politics I can’t remember anything like this. Of this magnitude.  Or the brazenness of the perpetrators to take credit for it. 

Moreover, I can’t think of any attempt by anyone to incite violence at Hillary or Sanders rallies. So there’s no tit-for-tat here, or any grounds for saying every campaign does this.    

Democrat leaders now say they knew nothing about all this. Bullshit. This isn’t just frat house pranks gone awry – people got hurt, some seriously, and their personal property was attacked.  They knew full well what would happen, because they engineered it. And paid for it to happen.    

When Trump says the system is corrupt he’s just scratching the surface.  The political establishment is corrupt.  Both political parties are corrupt. Government is corrupt.

You can’t always get the ideal person to lead a revolution.  But I’m okay with Trump. 

It’s a start.  

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