Posted on 08/23/2017 6:39:30 AM PDT by pgkdan
Seeing both sides of a problem could be seen as a no-no. Washington
President Donald Trump is in trouble again with his Moral Superiors. His problem, of course, is that he cannot throttle his B.S. Detector. Trump it seems at some point in life acquired a B.S. Detector that has usually served him well. It certainly served him well during his long years in business and during his brief time in politics. Now, however, it is problematic.
The Detector sounds an alarm when it perceives B.S., and during the Charlottesville disruptions it went wild. Every time the Mainstream Media or a political figure (usually a Democrat) began vituperating against only one side in a manifestly two-sided conflict, Trump’s B.S. Detector could not be ignored. Frankly, if I were the President, I would have thrust the device under the bed or asked the Secret Service to take it outside for a walk. Instead, President Trump heeded its alarms and said there was blame on “many sides.” Kaboom!
It was a faux pas, but that did it. Ever since he has been abominated wherever his Moral Superiors gather. Of course, entre nous, he was right. Anyone watching the televised chaos could see armed fighters confronting each other. There were the thugs of the right with helmets, weaponry, and even guns confronting the thugs of the left who were pretty well armed themselves with helmets, weaponry, and even guns. These thugs on the left even had women carrying guns. I think gun-toting women is a first for American street brawls. You have come a long way, ladies.
Yet our Moral Superiors in the media and the Democratic Party only reported the violence on the right. Most of us watching in the comfortable vicinity of our television sets saw the two-sided violence, and some of us reading our newspapers saw pictures of the ladies with guns. However, President Trump capitulated to his B.S. Detector’s alarms yet again and declared that “both sides” were responsible for the violence. Kaboom, again!
It was another faux pas. He should have acknowledged only what his Moral Superiors saw, which apparently were various species of right-wing fanatics who are about the only political fanatics his Moral Superiors ever see. Though such freaks as Klansmen, Neo-Nazis, and members of the alt-right (a recent innovation) have for years been almost as rare as the Abominable Snowman, the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party keep hauling them out from oblivion, and so they were numerous enough to show up at Charlottesville. Now our Moral Superiors see America crawling with right-wing fanatics.
What is to be next? Well, of a sudden there is a campaign to eradicate Confederate monuments from the Republic. That will allow numerous opportunities for further violence of the kind we saw in Charlottesville the other week. Moreover, the defilement of America’s past is not going to end with the Confederacy. There are plans afoot to go after the Founding Fathers. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have been mentioned. There is even evidence that Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, is not exempt. Some days ago in Chicago some peace-loving protester disfigured a bust of old Abe.
So now it is apparent that a full court press is being made against most of America’s history. How does one explain this hatred of the American past? Well, I think one has to consider what is being taught in American schools. Only that can explain such a broad-based movement as the move first against the Confederacy, then against the Founding Fathers, and finally against old Abe. The American educational system from grammar school to high school to college is full of poison. Though most of it is paid for at taxpayers’ expense, Americans have got to get around this cancer within our borders.
Fortunately, our Founding Fathers provided a way, to wit: federalism. Right now alternate schooling is being financed throughout the states. All over the union — even in New York, even in California — alternative schools are turning out bright students untouched by the poison of political correctness. In North Carolina, for instance, so far in this decade there are more than 116,000 new students, the majority of which are not going to traditional public schools. Enrollment in North Carolina’s traditional public schools has actually dropped by 5,562 his year. Meanwhile charter schools, home schools, and private schools have increased by 23, 880.
The trend is spreading all over the Republic. “It time to rethink the idea of public education,” Timothy Hall recently told the News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina. Hall is the director of academics at North Carolina’s Thales Academy. He is part of this healthy trend that will only speed up in the years ahead.
President Trump, do not despair. Our Founders had our back 230 years ago.
Honesty
Common Sense
An unabashed love for this country and her citizens.
How could anyone vote for such an obviously flawed man???
Finally, we have some conservative intellectuals who recognize that there is BS for Trump to detect.
best to ignore BS media altogether.
there are real alternatives:
22 Aug: The Hill: Joe Concha: ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’ most-watched business news show of the year
http://thehill.com/media/347507-lou-dobbs-tonight-tops-cnbc-as-most-watched-business-news-show-of-the-year
Seeing both sides makes him crazy enough to invoke the 25th.
“President Trump heeded its alarms and said there was blame on “many sides.” Kaboom! it was another faux pas...”
Truth is a faux pas to proggies, RINOs and socialists, as plainly said in this article. So, are these people proud of their two-facedness? Do they enjoy lying? Are they incapable of dealing in truth?
This IS mental illness, serious mental imbalance, and they parade it.
FWIW, I just shared this article with everyone on my email list who has an open mind. It’s an excellent, objective article that gives context to how we are where we are.
Arguably the violence on the seeming right was carried out by faux righties. A lot of FR folks fume about doing such things but usually when pressed say they are only kidding. Real righties know they don’t want more chaos, but order.
It’ll take a while for Donald to grapple with this. As a real estate mogul he never had to face a false-flag situation.
The right’s chief fault is going into a situation weak and unprepared.
You're right. Five years ago I thought folks talking about false flags were nuts. No more.
You overlooked the fact that there’s no provision for removing the establishment in that amendment.
I did, too. A built in bs monitor. Truth may yet prevail.
The quintessential journalist? Dan “Fake, but accurate” Rather.
The doublethink they manage, without going completely insane, is actually quite impressive.
They flock together and there are sociological groupthink pressures operating upon them, beyond my ken.
According to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, doublethink is:
“ To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink. ”
“ The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.” wickedpedia
Yup. Internet is messing that up, though. Open and persistent buggar. So far...
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