How to Deprogram Us

American Greatness ^ | 27 Jan, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Dat]

Every time I hear this I think of the movie “The last Emperor”.

[JennysCool]

There are a couple of non-violent, extremely useful tactics I can see being employed to counter the “elites,” both of which must be extremely comprehensive, and EXTREMELY well-funded.

For one, a network that functions as a completely honest source of news. That means NO partisanship and NO propaganda for either side of a story. A network that establishes itself, day one, as a stringent reporter of NEWS, not the opinion of its reporters and producers.

BUT this network is also dedicated to covering those who have hitherto been uncovered ... The so-called “elite” of business, politics and entertainment. Those heretofore faceless “masters of the universe” who aren’t used to having a reporter show up at their luncheon, asking questions about how their public statements don’t seem to match their political contributions. And then showing up the next day, and the next ...

But this is America, of course, so coverage should also include a little TMZ, New York Post-style digging. For example a reporter and photographer showing up at the golf course to ask the normally-comfortable tech CEO about his son, who was so unfortunately arrested the other day in regard to a drug-trafficking investigation. “That was in Belmont, wasn’t it sir? Don’t you have extensive real estate holdings there? Have the authorities contacted you about that?”

The second tactic, which has been running through my head for some time, would be establishing — again, an EXTREMELY well-funded — investigative agency dedicated to ferreting out corruption in government at every level. It always stuns me how people just seem to nod and say, “Okay, sure” when they read a news story saying that an agency suspected of corruption is investigating itself. A private agency with pull and dedicated to probing government corruption has been needed — oh, well, since the first government was formed.

I emphasize the “extremely well-funded” aspect because we have websites and small networks aplenty trying to do this sort of thing, but they’re doing it for the most part under the radar — cable channels in a comparatively small amount of households, websites that do good work, but are not household names. For either of these operations to work, they would need to hit the ground running, with enough PR and advertising to get above the chatter, and instantly noticed and credible.

These ventures — perhaps done in tandem — might well put the fear of God in the “elites” — where it belongs.