What the Reflecting Pool Reflects About America

Over the last two weeks, the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial has been mentioned over 600 times in various news media outlets. During the same period, the Islamic terrorist massacres of Christians in Nigeria have only been mentioned around 40 times.

Why is the status of the algae in the reflecting pool more important than the lives of dozens of human beings? Part of the answer may lie in the inconvenient truth about who is doing the killing in Nigeria and who is being killed, but the other is Trump Derangement Syndrome in liquid form.

The renovation of the reflecting pool should be as apolitical as anything gets. Critical race theory has thus far failed to connect the reflecting pool to systemic racism (though no doubt if asked, its professors will claim that it was built by slaves), gender critical theory has nothing to say about the reflecting pool and ‘heteronormativity’ and the Marxists have failed to connect it to capitalism. Even the Hamas supporters have failed to show up waving their terrorist flags.

Unlike White House renovations and the battles over the renaming of the Lincoln Center, fixing the reflecting pool offers no specific benefits to Trump. And renovating it ought to have been a completely apolitical bipartisan issue with Democrats and Republicans agreeing to fix it up.

When the pool was previously renovated under Obama, Republicans did not jeer or complain even though the repairs proved woefully inadequate and shortly after the pool opened, it had to be closed again and cleaned of a massive algae outbreak that turned the whole pool green.

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Republicans and conservatives did not view the algae outbreak as some sort of vindication and FOX News did not run minute-by-minute coverage of the color of the reflecting pool because they wanted a good, clean reflecting pool, and understood that a nearly century old pool was difficult to maintain, and that the challenges were not reflective of a particular administration.

That’s in sharp contrast to the media mania surrounding Trump’s renovation of the pool.

What the reflecting pool really reflects then is Trump Derangement Syndrome in its purest state. There is nothing to muck the waters with except the obsession with opposing anything that President Trump does simply because he’s doing it. And the fact that the media has provided more coverage to the reflecting pool than some regional wars shows what its base looks like.

The media is now filled with headline coverage from major media stories such as “What Color Is the Reflecting Pool? An Investigation” from The Atlantic, “Reflecting Pool woes: Trump administration turns to hydrogen peroxide in latest bid to beat back algae” from CNN, “Why the Washington DC Reflecting Pool became a global talking point” from the BBC and “What I Saw at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Monday Afternoon” from the Wall Street Journal.

Two weeks of relentless media coverage of the reflecting pool reflects the fact that the media caters to a demographic that is obsessed with the most minute and petty score settling with Trump and that any story no matter how objectively unimportant can be blown up for its sake.

The media’s radical leftist turn has left it dependent on two demographics, the smallest one of leftists, and the larger one of older white liberals who are obsessed with social media narratives about Trump even while caring very little about the socialist policy agitprop that drives the Left.

It’s this latter demographic that pushes the media into orgies of idiocy that have to be seen to be believed. The Left wants to contend that Trump is a manifestion of heterocapitalist white supremacy, while the TDS’ers want stories about how Trump lies about his weight, has trouble walking down the stairs, drinks too much diet coke, raped everyone between New York and California, and how he ruined the reflecting pool. And since this is the demographic that keeps the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC (MS NOW) and CNN afloat, the end result is not only a wildly biased media, but a fundamentally malicious and unserious one.

Jeering the renovation of the reflecting pool isn’t progressive: it’s the kind of thing done by those who no longer know the difference between defeating their political opponents and defeating America. Leftists hate Trump because they hate America while TDSers hate America because they hate Trump. It’s why polls show that this particular demographic answers that it’s not proud of America when Trump is in office, but has pride in America when Democrats take power. ...

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

The reflecting pool started life as a vision, but also as a way to drain the swamps of D.C. and capture the excess water. The difficulty in maintaining the massive pool has posed a challenge for over a century, but it’s also a testament to the idea that Washington D.C. could be cleaned up. Today, liberals seem to celebrate the idea that it has to stay dirty and jeer Trump for trying to clean up its crime problem, its filth and waste and the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.

An excellent article talking about, that which has been mentioned over 600 times by the MSM in just the last two weeks.

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There was a thread the other day LINK TO FR THREAD: "Swing State Democrat Claims Reflecting Pool Algae Is The Biggest Issue Back Home"

where Debbie Dingell (D) from Michigan stated:

"...A top House Democrat claimed Monday that algae in Washington, D.C.’s reflecting pool is the only issue her constituents back home are talking about..."

Think about this. THIS is what a significant number of people think is "important". Granted, it is not a majority, but if you were to believe for once these people like Dingell who lie as easily as they breathe, it would be a significant number.

Before I dismiss Dingell's claim, I keep in mind these two charts, compiled from a poll after the 2020 Presidential election, that show what the key concerns were for the two different major parties in this country:

This is what conservatives (ostensibly Republicans) were concerned about at that time:

Seems reasonable, right? Those seem like thoughtful, normal, and significant things to be really worried about, right?

Now, for contrast, this graph below demonstrates what Leftists (Democrats) were worried about:

The contrast is striking.

The top fears for Conservatives were reasonable and legitimate fears, illegal immigration, lack of support for police, high taxes, and biased media. All the rest are wholly legitimate and reasonable concerns.

But viewing the Leftist. fears and concerns, their top fears were: Donald Trump's supporters, white nationalism, systemic racism, and gun violence. All the rest are completely implanted or resident fears in the minds of Leftists.

The only two concerns they have that we might consider reasonable fears for this nation are gun violence and Americans lacking health coverage, and both of those (if even to be considered reasonable) have their roots in Democrat Leftist policies, gun violence as a result of leftist crime policies, and lack of healthcare directly attributable to the Leftist Obamacare laws.

When one examines these two lists of concerns broken down by ideological leanings, there is only one conclusion that can be reached:

The Left in this country in general, and the Democrat Party in particular are wholly in the grip of mass psychosis as the result of a coordinated "Color Revolution"

LINK: (as explained in this excellent American Thinker piece titled "The stages of a color revolution-and where the U.S. is right now")

If what a liar like Dingell says is true (and remember, she is a Democrat, and in today's Democrat Party, that means she is a pathological liar) we have to conclude that what those graphs above indicate, the Left in this country is completely untethered from reality, logic, and reason, is true.

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