We hear about the alt-right and the
alt-left, but the real issue is the alt-reality.
Most Americans' perceptions of the world
are shaped by information they get from primarily liberal sources such as the
media, academia, and government.
That's why many Americans live in an
alternate reality where Hillary did nothing wrong at Benghazi, abortions occur
only due to rape, global warming is supported by 97% of scientists, the economy
is doing great, emotions are good and reasoning is bad, Republicans are
racists, Castro was a kind and caring man, and Trump is an insane tyrant.
The reason liberals have been able to get
away with lying for so long is that most of these issues don't affect the
average voter. The average voter doesn't care about Cuba, is not planning
on having an abortion herself, and didn't lose anyone at Benghazi. As a result,
many people don't bother to see if what they hear is in fact true.
In addition, most people aren't exposed to
any information sources that contradict the liberal narrative. Hence, the
average person who's working hard to support their family and raise their
children never has any reason to question liberal propaganda.
Even worse, when the "accepted"
information sources all say any position they don't agree with is
"fake," the average Joe or Jane will simply assume that his
brother-in-law who is a conservative is just mistaken. After all, would
the nightly news anchor who looks so honest really lie?
Finally, the liberal alt-reality machine
constantly acts as though virtually all Americans agree with liberal values –
that anyone who doesn't accept liberal views is a deplorable or an idiot.
That tends to keep people from expressing their conservative views, or the fact
that they were going to vote for Trump, because no one wants to be labeled a
fool by others. This helps limit the spread by word of mouth of news
sources the liberals don't control.
What led to the Trump win is that the
liberals have become so out of step with reality that many Americans decided to
completely distrust them.
When the media told people it is evil to
object to any man who self-identifies as a woman, at that instant, using the
same bathroom as a 10-year-old girl, most people stopped and realized that that
is insane.
When people saw how tough their economic
situation was and how many of their friends couldn't find a job, but the
liberal establishment said how much Obama had improved the economy, most people
began to realize that maybe they were being lied to.
When people saw cops who acted in
self-defense having their lives destroyed and other cops being hunted down and
assassinated, all while they were hearing that saying "all lives
matter" is racist, they began to understand that the establishment voices
were on the side of the crooks, not the cops, on the side of blacks but not
whites.
That's why most Americans distrust the media,
academia, and the government.
This long delayed realization by so many
Americans that the cultural elites are lying to them is what has triggered the
liberals' sudden fascination with "fake" news.
Liberals know that the great unwashed
masses who cling to their guns and religion won't accept liberalism.
That's why the liberals constantly have to lie about their vision for America.
After all, who'd sign up for a world where your liberal
"betters" control every aspect of your life, including how much soda
you can drink?.
That's why liberals are now hell-bent on
ensuring that any voice other than their own is labeled "fake."
They know that their only hope to get and retain the power they are so addicted
to is to have a monopoly on information.
For decades, anyone who has disagreed with
liberals was automatically labeled a racist. This worked to delegitimize
conservatives precisely because neither conservatives nor America in general is
racist. Do you think Democrat Senator Byrd in his KKK days would have
been bothered if he'd been called a racist? But people who aren't racists
don't want to be branded as racists.
It's time we fought back and made sure
that Americans don't return to trusting the liberal "h8rs."
Given that the best antidote to liberalism
is truth, here are some bits of sand you can throw into the left's media
machine:
Mention that liberals must be pretty
stupid not to be able to recognize the difference between The Onion and real
news sites.
Ask why we should believe attacks on
conservatives by the NYT after it said it should be biased in its coverage
against Trump.
Point out that the liberals are the
racists, given that the only time they care about a black being shot is when a
white, a "white Latino," or a cop does it. Thousands of blacks
are murdered in Democrat run cities every year, and the liberal chattering
heads say nothing.
Ask why, if the economy is so great,
household income has been stagnant, and so many people have only part-time jobs.
Wonder why the media was totally wrong
about Trump winning.Ask if it isn't fascist of universities to suppress speech
they don't like.
All of us have an amazing opportunity to
delegitimize the establishment information sources.
While the Trump revolution has returned
control of the Congress and presidency to the people we still need to overthrow
the modern Goebbelses, whose propaganda conceals the racist and fascist nature
of modern liberalism.
People of all political stripes are
beginning to question whether or not they're being fed a pack of lies. We
need to get them to take a good hard look at the gaping chasm between what
they've been told is true and what they see with their own eyes.
We don't want to silence liberal voices,
but we do want to make sure everyone knows that liberals are liars, not trusted
family friends who have our best interests in mind.
We need to ensure that the vast majority
of Americans know that ABC, CBS, NBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times,
and the rest of the liberal voices are even more biased and less reliable than
Fox News.
When the vast majority of Americans
realize they can't just watch the evening news or pick up their local paper in
order to find out what's real and what isn't, America will be ready to truly return
to being a representative republic.
You can read more of Tom's rants at his
blog, Conversations about the obvious,
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