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 …

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

They're enhancing Trump's folk-hero status ...

It’s one thing to win an election. 
 
It’s quite another to try to destroy anyone who voted against you.  Or who had supported or served in the administration of the person you defeated. 
 
That’s the stuff of banana republics. And of despots throughout history.
 
It’s vengeance run amuck. It’s also a sign of fear that the people under attack might come back and overthrow you in time.
 
We’re living through that now. The left and Democrats are working hard to punish anyone who had anything to do with Trump. At the same time, they are actively dismantling Trump policies just because these came from Trump.  They’re doing this even when they are knowingly throwing out things that worked, such as his immigration policies and tax cuts.
 
They are using all the power they have – with assistance from the media – to blame Trump for the economic fallout from the pandemic and deny Trump credit for anything.
 
Trump created and funded Operation Warp Speed to produce and distribute the Covid-19 vaccines in record time, saving untold American lives. Trump did that, even while the media and Democrats said it was impossible to do so quickly.  Prominent Democrats like Biden and Kamala Harris said they wouldn’t trust any vaccine from Trump. 
 
However, their new story is that Biden inherited nothing from Trump, had to start from scratch, and was the one who produced and distributed the vaccines. If Biden hadn’t been elected and taken control of the situation millions of Americans would still be waiting to be vaccinated.  In fact, Biden says, there were no vaccines before he took office.  Which is hard to take since Biden and his wife got vaccinated on December 21 of 2019 – almost a month before he was inaugurated.     
 
It's all part of a new narrative; a revisionist history of sorts.  Something the Democrats and the media try to do all the time.  They want to turn Trump into a non-person. A boogey man. A bad dream. A nightmare they have vanquished for all time – you’re welcome, America.       
 
They are making it also crystal clear that anyone now who opposed them in the past and might foolishly think of opposing them anytime in the future will be destroyed personally, professionally, and financially.  Trump, his family, the members of his administration, his friends, his allies, and his supporters will serve as examples of what can happen.
 
They want their heads on spikes.  All of them. 
 
I’m not all that surprised. Disgusted, yes; surprised, no. 
 
Even before Trump was the Republican nominee, the left, Democrats, the media, and many in the Republican establishment as well, wanted him destroyed.  Democrat hacks like Cyrus Vance in New York and other states’ attorneys in blue states started investigating everything Trump in hopes of finding something to take him out forever. Letitia James was elected attorney general in New York on the campaign promise to prosecute Trump; precisely for what, wasn’t important.    
 
Democrats, the left, and their media sycophants might believe they are doing God’s work to purge America of all things Trump.  The constant harassment of Trump, his family, his allies, and former members of his administration – which has gone on since before he was elected and continues today – will probably have the completely opposite effect of what they have hoped. 
 
Whether or not they realize it yet, they are turning Trump into an even bigger folk hero than he was.  Their obsession with destroying him and anyone associated with him appears overtly and unnecessarily mean-spirited and vindictive to many Americans.  

The more frenzied they become, and the broader they expand their target for rage and retribution, the less it appears entirely warranted. 
 
Especially now that anyone who voted for him is also a pariah. That’s over 74 million Americans at last count.  That’s a lot of the electorate to write off as hopelessly evil, stupid, racist, and worthy of scorn. That’s close to half of all those who voted in 2020. 
 
Could just be me, but if somebody continues to ridicule and belittle that many Americans every day, there’s going to be a backlash.  Yet that’s exactly what Democrat party leaders, late night talk show hosts on ABC, CBS and NBC, alleged “news“ anchors on CNN and MSNBC, and daytime network shows like The View are doing every single day.
 
They are all spewing unrelenting contempt for millions of Americans.
 
All that’s going to leave a mark. And it is. 
 
It’s already having a dramatic effect on ratings, which is one metric that gauges where America is going.  CNN and MSNBC are losing viewers in record numbers; some former “hit” shows on CNN are struggling to attract more viewers on average than attend an Ohio State football game. The Gutfeld! Show on Fox is outpulling every other show in his time slot – at times more than a couple of them combined.  The number one morning show in cable is Fox and Friends.  In terms of the demographic most wanted by advertisers, four of the five top cable news shows are Fox News properties.  
 
Apparently, ordinary Americans don’t like being insulted. Who knew?
 
Obviously not the folks running the other media outlets and networks. 
 
Instead of demoralizing Trump supporters, which is what they hope they’d accomplish, they’ve simply fanned their passion for Trump and against Democrats, the left, and the media. Support for Trump has hardened among his supporters and increased among independents.
 
Once again, people may not have liked Trump the man, and may not still, but they liked that he pretty much did what he promised to do.  No one ever doubted what he thought or would do because he always told everyone right up front. Often bluntly. His supporters loved that candor.   
 
Unlike the current administration, Trump never hid his agenda or waffled on his beliefs.        
 
I’m pretty sure Democrats in Congress and the left-leaning media are starting to feel the ground shift beneath them. They can produce any number of self-serving polls showing people like Joe Biden personally and are always in favor of getting free money. When Joe stands up for something with which they don’t agree, like open borders and free benefits for illegals, and the free money runs out, it will be a different story. No matter how hard the media tries to spin it to protect him.  
 
Right now, Democrats, the left and the media are in a state of denial that this could ever happen.
 
But it will. It’s a certainty.   

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