The media's attempt, bolstered by some in the intelligence
community, to spin the lie that Russia wants Donald Trump re-elected shows
their utter contempt for the intelligence of Americans.
Simple
logic and a cursory understanding of history, economics, and political
philosophy punctuate the absurdity of their statements.
It
is relatively easy to surmise the kind of leader whom Vladimir Putin or Xi
Jinping would love to see leading America.
That
leader would be weak, show little interest in a militarily strong America or
its allies, and implement policies that would weaken America and American
influence. That leader would be skeptical of capitalism and would be
advocating the dismemberment of the U.S. energy sector, since this would
significantly boost Russia's economic prospects and global influence while crippling
America. That leader would propose obscene levels of government
spending to bury the country under a mountain of debt. He would be
all in on open borders. He would be groovy with unfair trade
agreements and would seek to tie America's hands behind its back with
ineffective international treaties and agreements. That leader would
be a committed globalist inclined to see America as the problem. He
might even own a flexible red plastic reset button.
Notably,
there are candidates aplenty in the race who check the right boxes, and none of
them is named Trump. Anyone who is telling you Russia wants Trump to
be re-elected is telling the big lie, one that is so absurd that only a
university-educated fool would believe it. It also demonstrates that
the media and their fellow Democrat travelers are convinced that Americans
really are a special kind of stupid.
They
have reason to believe this since they have been prepping the battlefield with
and for their lies for decades. Considering that Democrats guzzled
down Russia, Russia, Russia like the last drop of water in a desert of despair,
their designated liars have some reason to believe that it will work again.
This
is also why Hillary Clinton saw no problem in accusing Tulsi
Gabbard and Jill Stein, along with Donald Trump, of being Russian
agents. She knows that this is absurd but thinks her fellow
Americans are stupid enough to lap up her smug vomit. In a saner
world, these accusations would have marked the last time she was ever allowed
to show her face in public.
Even
the "revelation" that the Russians are pulling for Bernie Sanders in
the primary is offered in a way that defies logic, while containing a
supersized escape hatch. The argument is that the Russians want
Bernie Sanders to be nominated, not because he is a Marxist madman threatening
to burn down the U.S. system, but because he would be the easiest opponent for
Trump to beat since these fictitious Russians want Trump to stay in
office. This conveniently allows its proponents to offer full
support to Sanders in the increasingly likely event he is the candidate.
One
of my favorite minor fictional characters is Professor Digory Kirke, who was
breathed onto the page by the great C.S. Lewis in The Lion, The Witch,
and the Wardrobe.
Kirke,
who was the boyhood hero in The Magician's Nephew, is now a wise,
old, and cantankerous professor. Whenever he interacts with the
Pevensie children, he constantly chides them for not using logic. He
laments that logic is no longer taught in school and questions the value of
what the children are learning.
Written
in 1950, Kirke is a prophetic character who is likely representative of Lewis
himself, since he was also a profoundly logical professor.
Lewis
was clearly already concerned about the breakdown of logic and reasoning in
schools and its effect on the next generation. We are now almost
seventy years beyond when Kirke appeared on the page. Some of the
philosophies that would later wreck academia were being birthed around that
time.
We
used to say people went to college to learn how to think. Today,
that has been inverted. Students go to college to learn how to not
to think for themselves. Teaching that leads to clear and logical
thinking has been replaced by concepts that are its antithesis, such as
intersectionality, Marxism, deconstructionism, humanism, queer theory, and
social justice theory.
One
of the most important steps in preparing a society to accept the kind of
contradictions George Orwell wrote about in 1984 is to
short-circuit critical thinking and to prepare a pliant and aggrieved
population to embrace the lies. The ideal citizen when the corrupt
"elites" are trying to transform society into a hellish Marxist
landscape is the one who is ignorant and lacks an understanding of history,
political science, ethics, philosophy, economics, literature, science, and
mathematics, among other disciplines.
The
schools and universities are dutifully doing their part. The great
books and concepts of the past have been replaced by the foolish theories of
today.
It's
a tragedy when kids go to college to receive an education but instead are
stripped of their moral bearings, filled with nonsense, and returned to society
as something less than when they entered, all for the basement bargain price of
$250,000 or more. And then the same cultural arsonists who
irrevocably damaged these students demand that we cancel their debt.
The
Apostle Paul, writing to Timothy, saw this age coming. He wrote,
"The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith
and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come
through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot
iron" (1 Tim. 4:1–2). The left is a refuge of hypocritical
liars and projectionists operating under the vilest of
influences. Within their perverse worldview, it makes perfect sense
for a multi-millionaire who collects houses the way some people collect sports
cards to preach Marxism while demanding the end of billionaires. It
is perfectly acceptable for virulently racist columnists who note that "it's kind of
sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men" to lecture
Americans from liberalism's flagship New York Times.
We
don't need committees or Secret Squirrel CIA officers to study and tell
Americans who foreign powers would like to see elected in America. Any thinking
person can deduce exactly whom China, Russia, and Iran want to see elected,
although Qassem Soleimani could not be reached for comment. The last
type of person any of them desires is an American president set on
strengthening America's economy and influence. China, in particular,
is eager to see a new resident move in to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
These
countries will certainly try to interfere in our election. That's
what hostile foreign powers do. But that interference will be aimed
at assisting in the election of any of the remaining stable of Democrats, any
of whom would be much more compliant and supportive of their
interests. Anyone arguing otherwise is either a liar or a fool.
If
Russia, or any other country, drops intelligence breadcrumbs that indicate that
it is trying to help Trump, it is with the knowledge that the information will
be weaponized by both the bureaucracy and the Democrats to hurt
him. It is a mistake to assume that our geopolitical adversaries
aren't devious or that they are stupid. They're not. They
are more than capable of employing reverse psychology.
Russian
efforts at disruption and division attempted the last time succeeded beyond
their wildest dreams, but only because the Russians had such eager allies in
America. The media-Democrat blabocracy have enjoyed their role as
willing accomplices to America's enemies and will remain so for the foreseeable
future, counting on the blindness and illogic they have cultivated to aid their
efforts.
Fletch Daniels can be found on Twitter at @fletchdaniels.