Today is May Day, a time for socialist rallies and communist celebrations.
This should not be confused with the international distress code word “mayday,” or maybe it should.
There is much distress about the land, an ever-widening rift between political right and left fueled by the left’s outright campaign to ignore facts and suppress dissent.
Liberals, socialists, progressives, whatever term you want to use, do not allow their arguments to be limited by truth. To the contrary, they are actively seeking to quash those who would speak the truth.
Admittedly, there are some on the right who play fast and loose with facts, but they tend to be called out legally as in the case of Alex Jones and his denial of the Sandy Hook school massacre. Why is this not the case when those doing the distortions are on the political left?
This Elon Musk bid for Twitter has exposed a lot of cockroaches. Begin with the company’s admission that for three years it overstated daily users.
Such errors are important because they are measures that affect the stock price, and advertising rates.
As a companion to this mea culpa from Twitter, there are the anecdotal cases showing conservatives’ numbers of followers mushrooming and totals of followers of liberals on the social media platform tanking.
Cynics have suggested that this indicates Twitter trying to get ahead of Musk’s prying eyes by freeing up conservative posters from censorship and shadow banning, while bringing liberal follower numbers back toward reality.
Twitter’s censorship czar is rumored to be about to lose her $17-million-a-year job which paid her for such successes as knocking down the New York Post for running the Hunter Biden laptop story, since conceded to be 100 percent true by traditional left-wing house organs such as the Washington Post and New York Times.
Said Twitter censor also banned any discussion of COVID being an escapee from a Wuhan lab, a supposition that not only won’t die, but gains strength as time passes.
Emboldened by actions of Twitter and Facebook, who line up squarely on the left and censor the right, the average leftist citizenry thinks it, too, can deny outright proven facts.
Consider the example recently encountered by me. During maybe a half-hour conversation, a guy who otherwise might be considered rational, refused to concede that Trump rallies outdrew Biden rallies.
His response to the matter of Hunter Biden and his alleged dirty dealings, was to maintain the entire Trump family was guilty of miscellaneous sins.
He cited former attorney general William Barr as protecting President Trump. If Barr refusing to look into election questions and giving Robert Mueller a free hand in his special investigator role looking for Russian collusion that found basically nothing on Trump is protection, who needs enemies?
The legal harassment of Trump and his family continues. But a Manhattan grand jury charged with looking into allegations of property price manipulation for purposes of securing financing or avoiding taxes reportedly is going to disband with NO CHARGES to be filed vs. Trump.
I guess the Biden justice department is protecting Trump, too, which would be a case of the strangest bedfellows.
Or maybe when it comes to producing evidence, the left has only the usual distortions of reality to offer and, thankfully, some individuals still decide such legal matters on facts not fantasy.
This leftist with whom I spoke eventually retreated to accusing me of thinking Trump was flawless. I responded as I have many times, that Trump is a flawed human being, with an overinflated ego and a mouth that moves often without the benefit of the brain being in gear.
That having been said, the Democrats ran two of the weakest candidates in history vs. Trump and so it was a no-brainer to vote for Trump.
The reality that he won even once is a monumental triumph, although these same leftists who argue an election could not be or was not stolen in 2020, maintain exactly the opposite was the case in 2016 when they lost.
To win, Trump not only had to beat the Democrats, he also had to vanquish his own gutless Republican party establishment.
Allow me to repeat, most Republican leadership is gutless in the extreme. But the grassroots segment of the party is strong and unbowed.
It’s time to become more strident and forget the “compassionate conservative” crap of George W. Bush and others.
If you think you can convince the raving leftists using facts, you are sadly mistaken. If you are counting on people like Bill Barr or current special counsel John Durham, charged with looking into Russiagate, to hold liberals’ feet to the legal fire, you are similarly mistaken.
If you think pandering to leftists will make them like and respect you, you are as delusional as they are.
Individuals need to demand truth and accountability regarding everything from social media and LameStream news, to local governments and school systems.
Until such time, the leftists will keep on winning and the country will continue swirling around the metaphorical toilet bowl.
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