Posted on 06/10/2023 11:55:25 AM PDT by grundle
My heart feels shattered into a thousand pieces every time I think about what was unwittingly unleashed upon this nation.
If you wonder how in America we ended up rehashing the — already won — civil rights battles of the 1960s in the year 2023, you can blame people like me.
In the wake of the 2015 Republican primaries, a massive and well-oiled machine consisting of hundreds, if not thousands, of media and social media outlets started to come together to harness an outrage mob of tens of millions of Americans, aiming to make President Donald Trump — and, by default, all Republicans — “toxic.”
Today the ire of that mob has turned inward, and we find ourselves in the midst of something similar to a neo-Marxist cultural revolution — and it started with small groups of Americans like me and some fellow military veterans. Many disparate groups like mine simply didn’t like Trump’s rhetoric and wanted to speak out — then all of us became coopted by darker forces with an agenda.
My Experiences With the Narrative-Driven Media
Starting in 2015, I was growing disillusioned and quite heartbroken by what I viewed, at the time, as a growing sentiment of anti-Muslim rhetoric in the public sphere. As the son of Middle Eastern immigrants, I had a keen sensitivity to the anti-Muslim tropes that I was reading on social media. In one case, after a mass shooting incident, I remember a social media post that intimated that if the perpetrators were Muslim, it was “time for internment camps.”
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“...and we find ourselves in the midst of something similar to a neo-Marxist cultural revolution...”
Except the marxist fratricidal purging takes place on social media platforms. And the obesity rate is 40%+ with the poor the most likely to be obese.
It’s an improvement, I guess.
Freegards
It’s always nice to read when people have woken up. The problem is the damage they commit before they realize their mistakes.
BTW, your link no longer works.
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America’s Path to Freedom
Over the last 15 years, I’ve voted for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. So it gives me no pleasure to admit that I was wrong, but I’m man enough to own it, for I didn’t step out of my bubble soon enough to see the red flags....”
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