Here’s how you know the news media aren’t all meeting in a room and coordinating their lies, because if they did, you’d expect at least one person to speak up about how obvious the lies and double standards are and implore the gate-keepers and mind-controllers to vary the intensity of their lies to create a more convincing illusion. That’s the way it used to work when there were only a handful of TV and radio stations and major national papers.
Why it looks like talking heads met in a room is because of what I call groupthink-at-a-distance (which is not exactly original), which is the result of a profession’s common function. Journalists and editors are progressive and globalist (in Gramscian terms, they’re “organic intellectuals”) determined to thwart the restoration of the American Republic. Their function is to manufacture consent (what Gramsci called “ideological hegemony”).
On second thought, if there were variation in the intensity of lies and double standards, then the patriot’s voice would break through, and that would be a bad thing. For example, if Trump and Harris rallies were covered the same, then the audience would see that Trump is filling stadiums and Harris can’t fill the small halls churches rent for potlucks and bingo. “But her polls!” Exactly. Remember Clinton’s polls?
The situation is such that the rank-and-file and some of the subalterns who are “with her” can no longer grasp the truth of anything—with other subalterns making sure that every perception and statement and clip aligns with the ends and the means to those ends. That’s why those who stand outside the bubble are smeared with identitarian epithets.
Think about the insane amount of projection coming from Democrats. “Trump is going to put us in prison!” It’s the Democrats who are putting their opponents in prison (or at least trying like hell). “Trump is going to end democracy!” Democrats are in a frenzy to protect the unelected administrative state. “MAGA are violent extremists!” Antifa/trantifa, BLM, the pro-Hamas crowd, the climate catastrophe nutters are the ones occupying buildings, vandalizing property, and assaulting civilians and police officers. “Trump won’t accept the results of the election.” It’s Democrats who are doing everything they can to rig elections (drop boxes, no IDs, no signature verifications, postal voting). “Trump doesn’t trust our institutions!” Democrats are moving to pack the court, institute term limits on justices, corrupt the independence of the judiciary.
It is a sign of the authoritarian reflex to see in others what one sees in himself, to accuse others of the thing that he is doing or wants to do. A lot of this comes from self-loathing, which is partly the result of estrangement of late capitalism. Absorbed into the bureaucratic machine, progressives more keenly feel the alienation. This is where all the whining about unfairness comes from, even when many subalterns have it pretty damn good. Rather than push through the muck of life, they blame others for the muck and demand government come rescue them. And if they have no muck to suffer under, they dwell on the often imagined muck of others and demand the same thing, then present themselves the saviors of the people they teach to be helpless and to see themselves as victims.
Who is it that is putting long-range missiles in Germany? Who is expanding NATO? Who opened the borders? Who is de-policing the most crime-ridden neighborhoods? Who promotes the prosecutors and judges who go after political enemies but let murderers and rapists walk? Who undermines the readiness of the law enforcement and the military with woke ideology? Who demands our institutions make hiring decisions based on race and other suspect categories? Who is working with big tech to censor speech and demonetize and deplatform users? Who sends the DHS and FBI out to intimidate civilians with knock and talk tactics? Who demands lockdowns, masking, and social distancing, and vaccine mandates? Who is pushing globalism? Who is working with transnational elites to weaken national sovereignty? Who wants to take away rifles while ignoring the epidemic of gang violence in our inner cities and white male suicide in the heartland overwhelmingly perpetrated with handguns? Who is sexualizing children in public schools? Who defends unnecessary medical interventions that radically modify and sterilize children and young adults? Who is teaching young Americans that their country is white supremacist and illegitimate?
All this obvious, but you will never hear it on the news. At least it can’t make it past the filters without the label “conspiracy theory.” It’s a lie, of course, but lies are necessary to advance and protect the status quo. These are noble lies, with those in power determining virtue. Those truths that challenge and undermine the status quo? These are now the lies. Or, if effective parody, “manipulated video.”
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