We’re living in an ongoing story that parallels The Emperor’s New Clothes, without the possibility of an innocent child ending the suspension of reality.
For those unfamiliar with the story line of the emperor’s clothes, a couple of con men show up in a land ruled over by a king addicted to fine clothing and promise to weave cloth for garments of untold beauty.
The catch is the cloth and garments are said to be invisible to morons and incompetents.
The con men pretend to weave cloth and make clothes, but merely go through the motions. Predictably, no one wants to admit publicly that they don’t see any cloth being weaved lest they be ridiculed by others unwilling to admit to reality.
This comports neatly with our present rush by cancel culture and leftists in general to label as racists, terrorists, insurrectionists, deniers, cult members, purveyors of hate speech or just plain idiots, anyone with the temerity to speak out about the pet crusades of the liberals.
Rather than risk such public labeling, the common people deny their eyes and remain silent.
In the folk tale, it takes a child crying out as the emperor parades in the buff that the guy has no clothes, for reality to intrude and be embraced by the masses.
And I’m reminded of a scene from the past summer in our living room when our eight-year-old granddaughter, witnessing a televised virus briefing by Pennsylvania’s gender-confused health official, asked in dismay, “Why is that guy dressed like a woman?”
Why, indeed?
Hypocrisy is not merely a function of the political left. It’s just that the leftists claim to see it continuously on the other end of the political spectrum, but can’t recognize blatant examples in their ranks.
I pointed out sometime back in a column for the local rag that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg trying to build a wall around his Hawaii estate to keep out legitimate landowners was quite ironic considering his outspoken condemnation of a U.S. border wall with Mexico.
When Hawaiians publicly chastised Zuckerberg for this contradiction, he retreated from the issue into the shadows, but his work to take over the Hawaiian properties and complete his wall continued.
This evening, during a routine visit to zerohedge.com, a web site that should be must-see for anyone eager to read stories the Lamestream media will not promote, I found a post there regarding Jeff Bezos, yet another mega-rich guy who thinks the rules that apply to you should not apply to him.
Whether it is lording over his Amazon workers by beating down unionizing attempts, or making sure only his viewpoint is spewed by The Washington Post, a one-time standard of journalism that Bezos now owns, Bezos appears to have a double dose of the hypocrite gene.
Amazon workers, unhappy with their working conditions, have been attempting to unionize at various locations. This includes most recently an Alabama warehouse.
But Amazon has made a formal request to the National Labor Relations Board that the election to decide whether or not the Alabama workers go union should not allow mail-in voting (too subject to fraud or coercion) and the NLRB should reconsider allowing the workers extra time – two months – to vote (too long).
Somehow these concerns sound vaguely familiar.
Of course some will say this is Amazon, not Bezos, making the request. Well, if you believe Amazon does anything without Bezos both knowing and approving, you are a naive individual, indeed.
I don’t recall Amazon mobilizing its considerable money and public relations machinery to question potential fraud in the most recent presidential election due to massive mail-in voting, or to raise doubts over increasing the time window for voting. Nary a whisper was heard from Amazon.
There was a time in this country when the public and media in concert would have called out this sort of Bezos-Amazon hypocrisy.
Alas, those times are but fleeting memories. This won’t change until the majority of the population that still believes in traditional morals and values grows some backbone and speaks out en masse.
It’s already been too long of a wait for that to happen. But a man can dream.
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