Posted on 11/17/2020 6:01:19 AM PST by Kaslin
The Oxford Dictionary defined “Post Truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” The left condescendingly popularized it owing to their failure to predict and comprehend Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. With this election, they’re now weaponizing it against America.
After Watergate, an emboldened left consistently applied post-truth polemics to set narratives about Republicans being anachronistic, bigoted, avaricious, pitiless, and religious zealots.
But Trump was an anomaly. The harder the left tried to malign Trump, the stronger the bond between Trump and his supporters grew. In fact, Trump managed to set his own narrative about the news media.
How did the left deal with their impotence of preventing Trump from becoming President?
It is said that the hallmark of the left is to accuse their opponent of that which they are guilty. Thus, the left’s response was the Russian Collusion hoax, their most sinister and audacious post-truth exercise.
It was floated without an iota of evidence, and it was endorsed by politicians, rogue intelligence personnel, and the news media. It was passed through the cacophonous echo chambers of the mainstream media and, soon, leftists had simulated their own reality.
Leftists had names for those who refused to accept that the Russians interfered in the 2016 elections: Loony conspirator theorists, post truthers, and agents of Mother Russia. And still they pushed it further, calling Trump a Russian agent whom Russia recruited in the 80s and who now reports directly to Putin.
The Russian Collusion hoax reached its pinnacle upon the appointment of a Special Counsel. The simulation’s impact was so powerful that even Republicans who controlled the House and Senate, members of Trump’s cabinet,
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Truth: Sean Connery died. Three days later Fort Knox was stolen. Along with the rest of the country. Goldfinger was a piker.
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