The Washington Post, the newspaper whose slogan is Democracy dies in darkness, is one of the many media outlets whose fingerprints are to be found on the light switch that’s been flipped off to darken the intellectual atmosphere.
Social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter are right there, too, making sure what they consider unacceptable news — and their definition for that is anything that harms the Democrats and Joe Biden — must be censored.
Current case in point: The ignoring of the Biden whistleblower implicating the Biden Family for its questionable business dealings with foreign nations.
But this is bigger than the current Hunter/Joe Biden news blackout. Don’t forget the New York Times, formerly the newspaper that proclaimed proudly that it contained All the news that’s fit to print, but now should admit, All the news that fits our narrative, we print.
A Times “journalist” has been decrying coverage of the riots in Philadelphia by those from less-woke outlets as attempting to misrepresent the situation. There are riots. There is looting. There are injuries. What exactly is being misrepresented?
In a more sane time, the charges of misrepresentation would have been applied to the iconic CNN shot of a reporter, in front of a background of flaming vehicles, reporting on Kenosha protests with the graphic screaming in large type “Fiery, but mostly peaceful protests.”
Why do they do this? It’s like the old joke: Why does a dog lick his balls? Because he can.
This is the Democrats’ country. Traditional conservatives are just marking time as an endangered species.
Democrats have taken control of the school systems, minting a never-ending supply of up-and-coming social justice warriors – poorly informed types who can’t name three Supreme Court justices or hold down jobs, but in a split-second can recognize perceived injustice and demonstrate en mass to show that they feel it to the core of their transfer-payment souls.
Democrats, regardless of which party is in power at the White House, hold the bulk of the bureaucratic posts in the federal government and use their numbers to throw sand in the gears of any Republican who would dare to challenge their un-elected power – witness the treatment of President Trump.
OK, so Democrats control schools, the bureaucracy (AKA The Swamp), social media and mainstream media outlets.
These people should never lose an election, yet somehow they manage to do just that, which calls into question their ability.
Recognizing that, if they win this one on a national level they will take great strides toward making their shortcomings meaningless by ramming through statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to provide more guaranteed electoral votes and senators to keep those pesky Republicans from ever again holding a majority in the Senate and thereby acting as a brake on runaway Democratic moves to socialize this nation.
Don’t forget the threats to pack the Supreme Court, and so guarantee the socialist rush would face no judicial limit on those plans.
Also Democrats will be quick to open immigration with little regulation, the better to boost the numbers of their base.
But the question isn’t why the Democrats do what they do, but rather why are they allowed to get away with it?
Why doesn’t the populace rise up and demand the shady past of Hunter Biden be investigated to see if it is as bad as it seems for Papa Joe, “The Big Guy.”?
The unfortunate answer is we’re moving inexorably toward the a sad state in which the majority of the United States citizenry doesn’t understand the value of sacrifice for the common good, putting country above self, doing the right thing not just what’s expedient.
Too many of our fellow citizens are softer than the Pillsbury Doughboy. They want to take the easy path both morally and financially.
Don’t ask them to follow traditional behavioral norms. If they want to dye their hair pink, sport more piercings than a pin cushion, tattoo every visible square inch of their flesh, then be offended that you might stare at them, that’s no problem.
People increasingly seem to believe if they lie, cheat or steal, it’s perfectly acceptable and if they should get caught, no punishment is justified.
If rather than joining the workforce they are content to wait for stimulus payments, earned income tax credits and any other manner of governmental largess, who are you to look askance at them?
We’re electing a president next week and filling federal and state legislatures, but what we’re really having is a referendum on the near-term future of this nation.
If Biden and his ilk prevail, this nation soon will be unrecognizable, and almost certainly irretrievable.
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