George Will sounds increasing like David Brooks.
“George Will sounds increasing like David Brooks.”
Journalism has changed. No longer do newspapers present a forum for the serious exchange of ideas. Newspapers, television stations, and other communications outlets are owned by big media companies. These media companies are heavily regulated by the federal, and sometimes state, government. In order to survive, grow, and prosper they must cater to the whims of the political class.
Today the left is in ascendency, controlling the levers of government through the executive branch and the regulatory process. In order to curry favor with an administration increasingly aggressive in using the power of the state to punish its perceived and real enemies, the media companies are active collaborators in spreading the progressive propaganda issued by the regime. The White House determines the message and conveys it to the statist media companies who then spout the administration line.
Will, Brooks, Krauthammer, and other self proclaimed “conservatives” are not serious thinkers or commentators. They are nothing more than window dressing, used by the media companies to make the disingenuous claim they are objective disseminators of real news when in fact they are the propaganda organs of the state. The self proclaimed conservative pundits have sold their services, and objectivity, for large salaries, huge speaking fees, and invitations to the private parties of the wealthy elites controlling business and government. Their written and on air drivel, even when it appears to offer token opposition, in effect serves the end of the state.
Note there is no passion in their words or delivery. They work to destroy opposition to the state by softening it, directing it to unproductive activity while allowing real tyranny to gain power, or deliberately dismissing it as crude and uncivilized.
Like Judas Iscariot, the elite conservative spokespeople long ago sold out for 30 pieces of silver. Watching them play on the media stage is like watching cold empty souls who have no humanity, love, creativity, passion, or meaning. Today George Will will scratch out another empty column, or pontificate on Fox News, before going to an obscenely expensive dinner in New York or Washington with his enlightened progressive friends. At conversation over dinner they will laugh at the pleas of the masses and congratulate themselves for being the enlightened beings with all of the answers.
At work Mr. Will’s hands will not get dirty, his muscles will not ache at the end of the day, nor he will wake up in the night worried his employer will export his job or replace him with an illegal immigrant. He does not worry about criminals or the police breaking down his door at 3:00 am, how his children can be educated in the miserable public schools, or if he will be able to save enough money after taxes in the rigged stock market or 1% CD’s to keep from living in abject poverty once he retires. To George Will, the real lives of those who clamor for a return to historical American values and culture are abstractions. As abstractions, they are not real to him and hence easily ignored or trivialized. Reality is serving his master so he can continue to pad his bank account and enjoy rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful.
George Will and David Brooks, like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, are not 21st century patriots and champions of liberty. These “conservative” mainstream media commentators are house servants on the progressive plantation who look down on the unwashed slaves in the field formerly known as the American middle class. Their worst fear is a modern day Sherman burning the plantation house and setting free the slaves.