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As someone once said, "These people are stupid".
The media used to be able to jam it down our throats, but not anymore. With the means to communicate far and wide with like minds, their power has faded. Now they have accelerated that decline with Fake News 24/7/365.
"The media inhabits a compelling fantasy world. It is able to occasionally realize this fantasy by imposing it on enough gullible people. But convincing a lot of people to live in your fantasy world isnt a strength. Its a weakness. The temporary power gained in the moment is more than offset by the disasters that follow. Just look at any Communist country, its fantasy economics, and the disastrous outcome."
Now, how about some truth and reality about the America which was envisioned and became a reality by the exceptional men and women who populated these shores from the 1600's through the middle of the 20th Century.
Thomas Jefferson's 1801 First Inaugural laid out what he considered to be the principles of his Administration. Mr. Trump may find that Jefferson's listing agrees with most of what he ran on as a candidate.
Note the important warning contained in Jefferson's last paragraph--that if "we" strayed from those principles, the nation should return to "the only road which alone leads peace, liberty and safety."
We are just beginning that "road" back. Determination of "We, the People," combined with diligence and patience will be required against those "progressive" paths which have led us away from the principles of Jefferson and the Framers of our Constiution of government.
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizensa wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the peoplea mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
Near the root of all this is Rush Limbaugh.
30 years ago he started, almost all alone, to tear down what was then called the MSM.
What an exciting 30 years.
So true! Thank you, Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah social media has helped us MUCH more than it has helped the left.
Actually, now that actors and singers and other morons on the left can post insane comments for 10s of millions to see, it shows what they are.
Meanwhile Trump reaches 10s of millions to set the record straight on what the media lied about that day.
Twitter is one of Trump’s greatest weapons. And BOY does twitter hate that.
Rush has long said the media run the rodent party.
Hmmm. If 2020 is a blowout election year win for PDJT and the GOP, will the rats cut the chord with media? I can't envision that, but what is the alternative if the media deliver nothing but defeats?
Oops. Cut the cord.
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Sounds a little like Dan's been hanging out on FR, doesn't it? But we underestimate the partisan media at our peril. It wasn't simply they who forced Pelosi and company into impeachment, it was their elected media darlings such as Cortez, sensationalist and radical, who forced their collective hand. Theirs was also the first balloon popped by the hard thrust of reality. That happens a lot when there's more sizzle than steak.
All of this pales in the light of the antics of the third leg of this disreputable troika, the intelligence services, whose determined effort to stoke the fire by persistently leaking to the media is nothing short of criminal. The partisan media, the third-rate politicians puffing their chests out in pretend righteousness, those are forgivable in a representative republic and sort of go with the territory. Not so the deliberate betrayal of oath that has permeated non-elective offices of trust. These have proven impossible to dislodge so long as they keep the circus going. We may all hope for a reckoning when it stops.
And on AM radio! Definitely grass roots and the same medium that our grandparents listened Roosevelt’s speech to the nation at the beginning of WWII.
Don’t forget to thank Al Gore for inventing the internet.
We may have reached that point for Progressives.
They were able to get away with lies for so long, they thought they were invincible.
At the same time their ability to control the narrative has deteriorated.
Rush has had significant impact.
But he was far from alone.
At about the same time, the Internet was making an impact.
Freerepublic has had a very large impact.
Social media has had a very large impact.
The multitudinous Second Amendment groups have had a large impact, building longer than Rush, on different media.
C-Span had a large impact before it went over to the dark side.
Well said. Thanks Rush!
The saddest person in the world is the one that starts believing his or her own BS.
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