Posted on 03/16/2020 4:44:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you have not noticed, Democrats and the left-wing media have seized on an opportunity – the COVID19 virus. The last three to four weeks have been filled with panic, confusion, fear, and dread with breathless reporting from mainstream media outlets. Leftist media and social media have played on citizens’ emotions solely for political profit – it is time to calm down.
Anchors and reporters have worked the public into a lather, making them believe that the government will instill a mandatory quarantine. Their reporting has led to a hand sanitizer, soap, and toilet paper shortage across the country– with fights breaking out at retailers. American citizens have bought into the idea that Trump is some authoritarian that is going to enforce martial law to keep citizens inside their homes.
Fear is a driver. It causes humans to do things they never thought possible such as taking the life of another through any means necessary in the protection of their own life, family member, or a friend. Being scared can make us physically more durable than ever thought possible. It can also make us mentally tougher than one could ever imagine.
Fear can also turn a human into an animal.
It is normal to get worried when talks of a flu epidemic begin in your community, and there should be a concern when we start to learn about pandemics such as the Swine Flu, or the Corona Virus. However, when the establishment media has caused many in America to act like caged beasts at Costco or Sam’s or any store that sells toilet paper, they have become irresponsible reporters. Some could argue that today’s legacy news outlets are dangerous at times.
However, in a time where certain news outlets have such a vitriolic hatred for the president, what can you expect? American’s trust the news to bring the facts. Though, when a news media outlet hates President Trump as much as they do, they manipulate the emotions of those who trust them. The leftist news does not need many people to believe them. They only need a small percentage so they can run a loop of the panic to whip up more distress. It is a disingenuous and immoral game plan.
Facts are the enemy of emotions. The mainstream media relies more on reporting emotion than factual evidence. If a Democratic politician is speaking on a left-wing news outlet, emotions are a focal point. However, a republican with facts are dismissed on the same network many times. When Joe Biden said, at a campaign rally, “truth over facts,” he meant “emotions over facts.”
The Democratic Party is more concerned with whipping up emotions using a virus, societal class, skin color, or ethnicity than they are with improving the lives of those who support them.
The left cannot win with facts, and they know it. In the world of politics, reality matters. Voters want the entire truth. Democrats have become masters of cloaking emotional topics with untruths. They present their causes as factual, but when they are broken down with critical thinking and logic, the argument often falls apart. Unfortunately, their voters are sheep and believe them.
We must be able to mitigate emotions in certain situations. When a person becomes emotional around the wrong people with bad intentions, they are much easier to manipulate. We see this now with the COVID-19 panic. 24-hour news network anchors speak with “experts” and “pundits” talking about the dangers, which are real, but they ignore the recovery rate.
Establishment news outlets are using emotions in an attempt to damage Trump and make this his “Katrina.” They do not care about the violence that has ensued over toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Left-wing news only cares that Trump does not get reelected in November. They are refusing facts and asserting fear.
Yes, the COVID19 virus is a threat. So far, we have seen it is most dangerous to the elderly or those with underlying respiratory problems. However, the news has hit a new low in terms of immoral reporting of fearmongering, helping their friends, the democrats. Facts matter more than emotions, and that rule applies here. We see violence, food/supply shortages, and stocks plummet. The left does not care about America, only their political aspirations.
Emotions do not change facts, only an individual’s actions.
If it’s not at the level of emotion, the Liberal constituents won’t ‘get it’
That’s what happens when the voters are so dummied down, that they can’t even challenge facts with facts.
Spoiled children work at that level, too
I posted this on another thread; fits here too:
This is mass psychosis, global insanity, irrationality to the max, and what I find most disconcerting out of this mass hysteria is that what I have long suspected, a good half of the human race are stark raving mad, nuts, crazy as loons, totally irrational, lacking in logic, suckers, easily misled, conversely easily led by those with evil motives, are gullible, and are daily being brainwashed by the socialist/communist/pinko/Dem/MSM deranged lunatics that live amongst us. These are dangerous times, my FRiends, dangerous times.
The Democrat media and their crooked politicians have managed to kill the entire US economy, even shutting down churches and schools, in order to defeat President Trump. Obviously, the people are more concerned over their access to toilet paper than preserving their freedom. This is what happens when enough people think that government is the most important thing in their lives.
New tagline.
We don’t have news in this country - we have propaganda.
I agree. Also the “let’s nuke it from orbit/better safe than sorry” crowd are justifying the total destruction of this country to “be safe”. Nutz!
Science it NOT a friend of the left.
Math is NOT a friend of the left.
Logic is NOT a friend of the left.
Hmmm, I’m beginning to detect a trend here.
“The last three to four weeks have been filled with panic, confusion, fear, and dread with breathless reporting from mainstream media outlets.”
At one time, vile left mediums like the Washington Post and NYT were seen as propaganda outlets. Now we have packs of idiots accepting their manufactured fairy tales as God’s truth.
Exactly.
In reality it is bound to be a small fraction of the total population of the country, and thus the need could exceed the available supply.
But even if it turned out that we have a huge inventory of ventilators, that would be bad news too, because it would signify that the government was perparing for a disastrous catastrophe of a plague. Panic!
Liberals are parasites never leaders the media nests with them.
Can you please explain?
News is propaganda.
- News is bad news.
- journalism is therefore negative.
- Journalists call news “objective.”
- "Negativity is objectivity" only to a cynic.
- Cynicism directed at society is naiveté towards society’s opposite, government.
- Thus, journalism is socialist propaganda.
“Ventilation” was supposed to be “ventilators" - the machines which keep lung patients in extremis from suffocating.
You’ll be a married man, my son.
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