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 …

Monday, July 16, 2018

Gaslighting the American public ...

The verb “gaslight” comes from a 1940s movie by the same name.  The villain artfully manipulates events and situations to make his victim doubt her sanity. Near the end she’s not certain what’s real and what isn’t because he’s controlled her perception of reality.

I think the media and the left are trying to do the same to the American public. 

They are actively trying to make us question what’s real and accept their alternate reality.

In that alternate reality, Trump is a racist, a bigot, sexist, a misogynist, a xenophobe, and a homophobe. He’s doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin by dismantling NATO, criticizing our European allies, and constantly attacking the integrity of the FBI and our other intelligence agencies.  He may also be a Russian agent since 1987.   

Trump colluded with Russians to steal the last election, which he really didn’t win anyway.  He hates all Muslims. He hates all people of color, especially brown and black people.  He uses ICE to terrorize illegal immigrants by breaking down their doors, raiding their workplaces, and deporting them, often ripping families apart.  He also favors tearing babies from the arms of their mothers at the border to discourage other possible illegal immigrants from trying to come here.

He’s nominating people chosen by powerful alt-right extremists to the SCOTUS who will repeal Roe v. Wade, rollback voting rights and civil rights for minorities, take away protections and rights for the LGBTQ community, put women in prison for having abortions, let corporations poison the environment, and turn America into a police state.    

Of course, none of that is true. There’s no proof at all.  Not a scrap.   

Trust me, if there was I’d know about it. I’m a news junkie. Every day I read the hard copy of the Wall Street Journal – Monday through Saturday, check out everything online on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC for balance, and sometimes go to Snopes to check things, as well as do my own research. I’ve been doing all this every day for years to validate what’s real and what isn’t. 

If there were any “proof” of any of the above, somebody would have shown it by now. It would be the scoop of the century.  You have to believe thousands have been desperately trying to find something, anything, substantive to support any of these allegations.  

The best anyone has come up with is that various reports and rumors “suggest” these might be true, which is a clever way to get around admitting you don’t have any hard evidence.  

You can’t prove a negative hypothesis – you can’t prove something will never happen.  But you sure as Hell can prove something has happened, especially when it’s by someone as extensively scrutinized for decades like Trump, if, in fact, it ever did. 

The truth is, it’s all made up nonsense. At best it’s speculation about what he might have done or might do, but again, there’s nothing to indicate he has or will or even wants to.  If anything, there’s a mountain of evidence that supports the exact opposite conclusion. 

However, the media won’t ever report that.  Even when facts are staring them in the face and readily available to anyone who cares to look.  It’s not what the left and the Democrats want. 

Instead they’ll all continue to push their alternate reality and hope we fall for it.

It’s called gaslighting. And they are all gaslighting the American public. 

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