America Grows Sick on a Diet of Propaganda and Political Theater

Townhall.com ^ | January 29, 2021 | Laura Hollis

[SkyDancer]

Only those that want to believe in that; as for others it’s entertainment.

[brownsfan]

Yes, but it’s an addict’s sickness. The public knows they are being propagandized. The public knows that our politicians are corrupt whores, playing a role for the audience.

But, the public can’t get enough, and won’t demand change.

And that is one of the reasons this country is in grave danger.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I’m not seeing much true leadership now.
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That’s because both parties cooperated to cheat out of office the one man who was providing the leadership we need.

[Ebenezer]

Too many Neros are fiddling while Rome is burning.

[erlayman]

There has at least been more acknowledgement of public anger at what went on this election since the inauguration. I don’t think anyone has a game plan (yet) but once the results of at least a semi legitimate investigation are released there won’t be any turning back.

[griswold3]

Panic Porn

[cp124]

I only look at Free Republic a couple times a day. I am feeling much better.

[SkyDancer]

Yep

[absalom01]

Look, the enemy told us what they were planning in plain English.

“Black neighborhoods are over-policed, and white neighborhoods are under-policed” means what it says: “Robbery, burglary, vandalism and other similar “crimes” will be ignored and will not be prosecuted. But previously legal activities, like voting for an anti-establishment candidate, or owning firearms, or previously lawful self defense will be criminalized, and the full weight of the state will be brought to bear.”

Even if we had a political party to try and fight this – and we do not - there is nothing that party can do to prevent or even slow down any of this. At least since 1965 system has always been rigged, but in 2016 Donald J. Trump came along and showed that it was possible to “beat the house.”

For four years, he singlehandedly exposed the corrupt cabal who are now back in power now as the frauds and incompetents they are, and he did that merely by enacting policies that made Americans more prosperous, more secure and more free than at any time since the end of the Second World War. That is why he, and we,must be destroyed, and driven from the public sphere: it is now plain that our elites have not merely capitulated to the malignant cancer of Globalism, but have enthusiastically embraced it, and all it implies. They are bought off, corrupt, and seek the destruction of the American republic as founded, to be replaced with am enslaved and immiserated people, who will beg for the scraps from their table.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m totally bored with it. I wish Trump and the military would just hurry it up. No person with a functioning brain really believes this clown is the president or is running the country.

[Billthedrill]

Carlson took the left to task in his opening monologue last Tuesday evening for relentlessly smearing innocent Americans, like bullies baiting their victims to -- finally -- throw a punch.

The "insurrection" wasn't much of a punch, actually, and the hysteria that followed was tinctured with comedy - half of Congress, we were informed, was about to be lynched by a "mob" that carefully stayed between the velvet ropes whilst "storming" the place. Watching the media dutifully echoing this pathetic screeching was nearly as amusing as watching the hysterics themselves.

A word of caution, however: the calls for concentration camps are obviously meant as the sort of provocation the author is talking about, nonentities such as Eugene Robinson making an attempt to be edgy, but they're no joking matter given the catastrophic implementations during the 20th century. That sort of thing isn't just goading, it's an unwary foot about to step on a land mine. You can warn them but they're flushed with victory and they're not listening.

[dfwgator]

Sure he’s a lefty but these lyrics seem apropos now:

The The - The Beaten Generation

When you cast your eyes upon the skylines
Of this once proud nation
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
Growing in the hearts of its population
And youth, oh youth, are being seduced
By the greedy hands of politics and half truths

The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

We’re being sedated by the gasoline fumes
And hypnotised by the satellites
Into believing what is good and what is right
You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
Or lost in the prisons of religion
But can you still walk back to happiness
When you’ve nowhere left to run?

The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

And if they send in the special police
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
Then won’t the words sit ill upon their tongues
When they tell us justice is being done
And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun

The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

[1Old Pro]

Political Theater is too nice a term. Politicians are screwing 6 ways to Sunday.

[Intar]

No, the country isn’t sick, it’s already dead.

[SkyDancer]

Yep - with you there sister.

[Intar]

Look, the enemy told us what they were planning in plain English.

“Black neighborhoods are over-policed, and white neighborhoods are under-policed” means what it says: “Robbery, burglary, vandalism and other similar “crimes” will be ignored and will not be prosecuted. But previously legal activities, like voting for an anti-establishment candidate, or owning firearms, or previously lawful self defense will be criminalized, and the full weight of the state will be brought to bear.”

Even if we had a political party to try and fight this – and we do not - there is nothing that party can do to prevent or even slow down any of this. At least since 1965 system has always been rigged, but in 2016 Donald J. Trump came along and showed that it was possible to “beat the house.”

For four years, he singlehandedly exposed the corrupt cabal who are now back in power now as the frauds and incompetents they are, and he did that merely by enacting policies that made Americans more prosperous, more secure and more free than at any time since the end of the Second World War. That is why he, and we,must be destroyed, and driven from the public sphere: it is now plain that our elites have not merely capitulated to the malignant cancer of Globalism, but have enthusiastically embraced it, and all it implies. They are bought off, corrupt, and seek the destruction of the American republic as founded, to be replaced with am enslaved and immiserated people, who will beg for the scraps from their table.

This. Everyone should read this twice and realize the truth. We are past the point of winning anything politically and the radical left are the real Nazis here and are destined to repeat history if not stopped. No one other than the "people" can stop them now.

[Harpotoo]

And both use dominion voting machines and like the results.

[Steve_Seattle]

You don't hear the term much anymore, but the left used to talk a lot about "reactionaries" or the "forces of reaction." The idea was for the left to keep pushing and pushing on crazy or destructive ideas and policies until they provoked some sort of violent reaction from the right, thereby giving retroactive credibility to the left's prior warnings of "right-wing extremism." The "reaction" is in turn used to justify further encroachments on freedom.

We've seen this dynamic playing out since the election, and especially in the wake of the January 6th riot, which was a godsend to the left. That one event has been seized upon to launch a whole new wave dangerous and divisive proposals, whereas an entire summer of leftist rioting was tolerated, justified, forgiven, and largely unpunished. Our gaslighting media even tried to associate it with "white supremacism."

[Liz]

There's a lot of talk about "unity" but the hate/filled lib/progs' version of unity is not about peaceful co-existence:
<><> Hillary Clinton referred to candidate Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables" in 2016.
<><> Trump's millions of supporters in 2020 are now being demonized;
<><> Democrap mouthpieces in the media label us as "threats," racists, "seditionists" and "white supremacists"
<><> we are told we have to be "deprogrammed," and "reprogrammed;"
<><> there's even talk of imprisoning us in "reeducation camps;"
<><> the progs want to subject us to "Nuremburg trials."

It would appear unity to a prog means total surrender, and living under the progs' authority and "Ministry of Truth."