Posted on 02/27/2021 6:26:43 AM PST by Kaslin
In the recently released movie, News of the World, Tom Hanks plays a former Civil War Captain for a regiment in Texas who now makes his living by going from town to town reading newspapers. The town folk of that era were essentially isolated from what was happening in the rest of the country and the rest of the world. If that sounds familiar, today's mainstream media readers – liberals – are in the same boat.
Fed a constant diet of leftist propaganda, and excluded from what's actually occurring, most of them, sadly, have no clue as to what's going on in this country or around the world. Most have no idea about Biden's outrageous blunders in the Middle East that are already heading us towards a new war in Syria.
Most have no idea how Biden enabled China to inexorably diminish U.S. power and influence while enhancing their own. Too many have zero understanding of how Biden’s dalliance with Iran threatens the world.
Life Without a Clue
Liberals have no clue as to the Biden crime family’s vast and blatant offenses against America. Many have no knowledge of Hunter Biden’s continuing nefarious activities with Ukraine, Russia, and elsewhere. Many have only a scattershot understanding of the crimes and utter mismanagement of Governor Andrew Cuomo, although, thankfully his deeds are finally catching up to him, and he is in deep doo-doo.
Too many liberals have no idea that Joe Biden's picks for various cabinet posts and other top positions are precarious at best, and that the credentials of the people he has nominated are highly questionable, even among Democrat congressional representatives and senators.
Nevertheless, when you visit any news site on the internet, other than those dominated by "progressive Leftists," you see that Joe Biden, or more specifically, his handlers, are making a mess domestically and internationally. One shudders to think what will happen if he and his utterly incompetent vice president remain in power for another 46-and-a-half months.
The “Woke” are Brainwashed
A recent poll of Democrats proves to be illuminating. When asked what their number one concern is, unquestionably it is “Trump voters.” In other words, despite all negative events occurring here and abroad, the Leftist media machine has so utterly brainwashed their readership that these poor souls believe that somehow someway, Trump voters are the biggest problem confronting the country, followed by white nationalism, and systemic racism.
Those of us on the right are only mildly shocked. Shocked, yes, because the poll signifies how utterly brainwashed Democrats are. Only "mildly shocked" because we already understand that this group has been brainwashed for eons. It is not entirely surprising that Trump voters, continually demonized over weeks and months and even years, are now seen as the nation's number one concern.
In 2021, for such an intellectual and informational chasm to exist is something for sociologists to study for years to come. How, in a world with the greatest information delivery machine that humankind has ever known – the Internet – can one-half of the populace be so utterly ignorant? The answer, seemingly, is that an “Information Iron Curtain” has descended upon them.
The Information Iron Curtain
Although they are free to click on alternative news sites and gain perspectives that cannot otherwise be gleaned from the sites they patronize each day, they do not make the attempt. The irony is that they are seconds away from gaining some semblance of objectivity.
Those on the right have no choice but to be exposed to the news and views of the Left all day long because the mainstream media dominates discourse in our society. We know what liberals are being told, and we know what conservatives are being told.
By contrast, liberals have little or no idea about conservatives, what they read and think, because the news that liberals acquire about conservatives arrives through the filter of the mainstream media. And the mainstream media has no intention, whatsoever, of offering a balanced perspective.
So Confident, So Wrong
In a world dominated by sound bites, too many on the left listen for only the first couple seconds of a broadcast, read only the headlines or the captions in a news article, and converse only with one another. They arrogantly proceed throughout their day confident in the knowledge that they know exactly what's going on. As such, they "know" that Trump voters and their views are evil and need to be purged.
George Orwell called it accurately in 1984 when the author described how newspeak – propagandistic verbiage characterized by circumlocution, euphemism, and the inversion of customary meanings – dominated public discourse.
Fortunately, for now, newspeak only dominates among the people who won't look any further. For the rest of us, we will continue to read multiple sources, ferret out what's actually happening, separate the wheat from the chaff, and ignore stories that rely on anonymous sources and alleged spokespersons to strive to learn what is true.
Great movie and the little 12 year old girl in it is amazing! I had not connected the lack of real news that the left is getting - to the movie. Excellent connection. I keep wondering if people are really that dumb!!!!!!!!!!!
As I’ve said before. The Wokesters are fast asleep in a dystopian nightmare.
Cuomo is in deep doo doo because somebody in the dem power structure has decided he’s liability. So they flip the switch from “ok” to “toast” and the machine starts to grind away at him.
CC
My news of the world comes from Sports Illustrated!
While america has freedom of the press, it doesnt have an independent, free press. Instead, with some exceptions, it has a propaganda arm of the democratic party.
I used to think I could talk to them and make them at least see where I'm coming from, or correct their misinformed views about those of us who see things differently. I never expected to have them agree with my point of view, but I thought at least a friend could be reasoned with. After years of this, it's become clear that it's useless. It's getting so that I don't even want to be around them anymore.
Queen’s News Of The World? Great album! :) Man, the 70’s music!
He got kicked out because he could never pay his part of the rent.
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Then he’ll be replaced with another Progressive. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
“His idea of a reasoned discussion was to shake his finger in one’s face and holler the same thing over and over.”
What I hear is “Just shut up!, you’re stupid!, you’re ignorant!, shut up!”. If you try to point out a fact they become unglued because they don’t have an answer.
Oh, of course. The only thing that will change is the name on the letter head.
CC
Yeah, pretty much.
“Those on the right have no choice but to be exposed to the news and views of the Left all day long because the mainstream media dominates discourse in our society.”
I got a half price deal on Hulu for $2.99 a month, but I have to watch commercials. I have been watching old Bob Newhart shows, but the pure propoganda that I have to suffer through is almost unbelievable. They apparently do not have enough sponsors for that show so I am subjected to just unbelievably bad political messages and promotions for more recent programs. I would rather be watching car and deoderant commercials.
Hanks played a lot of roles I much appreciated, Saving Private Ryan comes to mind right away.
But this last election revealed him to be a serious Leftist Democrat propagandist, and I can't watch him any more without thinking about whose side he's really on. 
We are now at the point, and it will necessitate very perilous times, where the only way the uninformed (and willfully ignorant) will ever come around is when they are impacted first-hand by the destructive progressive/socialist policies they vote for. Human nature, pride, will not allow them to see their own errors, they must feel the brunt of them through suffering and loss.
What makes this so perilous is that for them to be converted (and it may never happen with the majority of them) we will have to endure progressive/socialist policies right along with them. We will see (we already do see) the impact. We must pray that they come to realize, turn from their error, recognize the true enemy of our republic and join the fight while there is still a country left to save.
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