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We are like the four blind men describing an elephant. Every point of view has merit and all see the beast (MSM) from a slightly different perspective.

My view is that we are concentrating on the parts rather than the elephant. The elephant is the left and its steady march to dominance in this country. The MSM is just one of its many tools, though an important one. The MSM now functions fully as the propaganda arm of the left and the controller of information. That is what makes the Internet and talk radio such a threat and why they will come after both.

The central question of why? needs a little background and an appraisal of its success. In the interest of brevity just look up Communist Goals and The Frankfurt School and compare that to today's reality.

The Communist philosophy can only exist through lies and deception. The Communist Manifesto, "From each according to his ability to each according to his need.", has obviously fatal flaws when taken at face value.

Who decides need? Who decides ability? The answer, of course, is The Party. That means central control and little, if any, individual freedom.

In a free society there will always be more rich than poor and more non-achievers than achievers. That is the natural result of human nature. To make all equal in a society, as Communism pretends to do, the government can only assure equality of outcome, not people. Can a non-achiever be made an achiever? Not to any great extent. The only workable way to equality is to prevent the achievers from succeeding. Who wants a society like that?

So they lie. They never mention preventing success but they throw many roadblocks in its way like government regulation, taxes, outright bans on certain activities, unionized labor, etc. All are accomplished through lies that explain that "it is for our own good."

Except for the few who are unabashed power seekers and use the lies to achieve it, the rest are what Lenin called "useful idiots", meaning those who believe the lies. That is what the MSM is to a large degree, as well as most Democrats, useful idiots.

They buy the lies of welfare, food stamps, paying for out of wedlock babies, free medical care, free housing, etc., being only temporary assistance to help the unfortunate and suppressed minorities. They believe that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a great thing for blacks. (In a recorded phone conversation at the LBJ Library LBJ can be heard telling Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, "That will keep the n-----s voting Democrat for the next two hundred years.") They believe affirmative action is necessary to right the wrongs of the past.

The list goes on but suffice it to say they believe they are doing good, fighting for a noble cause, and they like to be seen as such. The Communists believe the end justifies the means, that todays traitor to the USA will be tomorrows revolutionary hero when they take over.

Destroying the enemy (Republicans and conservatives) anyway possible is noble. Lying about them is OK. Shutting off their voice by shouting them down, outlawing their organizations, eliminating their views through Campaign Finance Reform, is wonderful. In other words, they are despicable and they do terrible things, all under the guise of doing good.

That is the elephant. The MSM is just a leg or a tail or a trunk. Most are useful idiots but some are hardcore Communists.

Of course you are correct and the words need to be repeated for those who are not aware of it. I don't think there is any confusion in this regard to most FReepers (check out the multitude of wisdom just in the tag lines of our FR compadres).

In my own, very humble opinion, Islam poses not near the threat that liberalism/leftism/communism does to this country. As with HIV, the left is the AIDS. islam will be the pneumonia that eventually kills the already weakened patient. With the left vanquished, all other problems are easily solved. But different topics warrant discussion on their own merits. All are little battles in a big war.

Which is exactly why the left vilifies Christians. Christianity professes a God greater than gummit and that is heresy to a leftist. To reach the communist utopia they need to justify a multitude of amoral actions such as abortion, homosexuality, the elimination of a father in the household and re-education among others and Christianity stands in the way of their goals.

Communism needs atheism to become the god to its followers.

Their latest attack on Christianity is to profess their version of Christianity by revising it to their way of thinking. The next election they will all profess to be Christians but it will actually be New Age Christianity.

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