Posted on 01/10/2024 5:45:43 AM PST by MtnClimber
They say “perception is reality.” Not quite.
But what someone thinks is true will shape their behavior, even if it isn’t actually true.
If that weren’t the case, billions of dollars wouldn’t be spent annually on marketing and advertising products and services you don’t actually need but which “consumers” have been convinced they can’t live without.
The same goes for the world of politics. There are perceptions, and then there is the reality. And knowing the difference between them in 2024 will be crucial.
So let’s start with that awful word: “narrative,” because the historic Presidential election this year will be driven by whether existing false representations of Left and Right can be broken.
The conventional wisdom, the DC narrative about Left v. Right has been boiled down for decades as: “the Democrats care about the little guy, for minorities and women” and “Republicans are mean, selfish, greedy and elitists who look down on the working man.” Then 2016 happened.
Incredibly, a billionaire reality-TV superstar real-estate mogul came out of nowhere with a message about the “forgotten men and women” who had been betrayed by both parties and about how we have to “Make America Great Again.” And Donald Trump won, the first time he ever ran.
Clearly the establishment narrative had failed the Left. So, what was to be done? Up the ante. With the violent support of astroturfed, so-called, social justice “movements” like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the spin-doctors, talking heads, and communication “experts” decided to go all the way.
Building upon Hillary Clinton’s original dehumanizing language of the “Deplorables,” which itself was a version of Obama’s “bitter clingers” slur, the Biden regime and its lacks doubled down. Instead of deplorable hicks who loved their Bible and their guns, the language switched to something much darker.
If you were one of the 60 million-plus Americans who originally voted for the billionaire from Queens, or the 70 million-plus who voted to re-elect him 4 years later, you were a threat. From his fascistic red-lit Marine Corps propped-up speech in front of Liberty Hall, to his speech Monday at the site of a church shooting which – strangely occurred under Obama’s presidency, not Trump’s – Biden has you as a MAGA-extremist, a domestic terrorist driven by White Supremacy. President Trump is described as an authoritarian who admires Mussolini, reads Mein Kampf, and is readying himself to establish a dictatorship.
This is all very strange, given that the man in question has already been President and took none of the actions we are told he is obsessed with when he already was in office. Instead of being a fascist or a Nazi, or a White-Supremacist, he was the most philosemitic President since 1948, a man who recognized Jerusalem and moved our embassy there, after 3 previous Presidents were too afraid too. As to White-Supremacy and general bigotry? In addition to black and gay cabinet members, President Trump initiated unprecedented justice and penal reforms to help minorities, in addition to historic support to Black colleges and universities.
So, who are the fascists?
Who deployed the FBI to raid Mar a Lago, the residence of a former President? Which administration arrested former Assistants to the President for “contempt of Congress?” Whose DOJ targeted a former President’s lawyers, including the former Mayor of New York? Whose FBI surveilled Catholics for being “traditional?” Who sentenced January 6 demonstrators for 20+ years for trumped up “obstruction of an official proceedings” charges? Whose DOJ used illegal surveillance 200,000+ times against innocent Americans? Whose Federal Air Marshals tracked Trump supporters simply because they support the former President. Unelected judges of which political persuasion are trying to take President Trump off the 2024 ballot? And which side has raised indictments totaling more than 730+ years in prison against the leader of the Opposition?
Yes, America is facing the threat of fascist dictatorship. But it’s already here. The Fascists are the Democrat Party and the Biden regime.
If Trump can overcome the cheating, I hope he can dish out ample portions of payback to the left.
This is CW2: We have our own responsibility in our own spheres as well ('friends', family, coworkers, traitorous local bureaucrats and politicians, etc.).
The people need to do the dishing out. We need to turn these people out from their positions of power. And the only way we do that is by talking to the people we know and convincing them that they’ve been used.
Well said. I’m through culling my herd of undesirables including my 42 year old radicalized daughter. Sometimes the cut runs very deep.
One thing seems, now, obvious - Trump is not a “dish out … payback” kind of guy. If he could get in, at all, what reason is there to think that it won’t be like last time? None. Not that last time was worse than now.
For myself, I have come to the conclusion that Trump was the “Not Hillary” candidate that the Uniparty wanted. Hillary scared even her own people, and no one could beat her, and her cheat apparatus, but Trump.
Trump is still hanging around, out of jail, just to keep The Beast in check. The only way that Trump gets back in will be if the alternative looks like Hillary.
remember kiddies...in a country where the VAST majority of the general voting public has no clue about what Real fascism, Nazism or communism is or constitutes, and is easily swayed by a dishonest media and its various factions and forms....one can only expect that at some point a reckoning will occur. which way it all falls down won’t really matter when the majority finds out that the weakening the divide has caused in these United States of America will be the opening salvo of our take over by the powers that be by the gathered armies we are too ignorant and inured to see. our own demise is assured by our own division. can’t change it at this point so all you and yours can do is make preparations to survive the worst. bleak? yes. defeatist? no...realism. what comes next? THAT, my friends, is very dependent on who YOU trust. can’t speak for anyone else but I know a Guy. read about Him is an age old Book. don’t know when He is coming back but from the looks of things, sooner than you think. blessings to all and don’t worry. be happy!
You have to hurt opposition enough to force concessions.
Damn good article, but of course the truth means nothing to Democrats. See Tagline.
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