It’s just media-Leftist dystopia to get the liberal base to vote for Democrats Nov. 8
Is American democracy really “threatened?” Is it really “under assault” by “election deniers” and the “Extreme MAGA Republicans?”
Or, is all of this just a figment of the media’s dystopic imagination and their constant coverage of the issue, which influences their viewers and readers to believe this?
Here is the definition of dystopia: “an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.”
Two-thirds of Americans in one poll agree that democracy in the United States is threatened. President Biden sure believes it. He enunciated it in that very dark diatribe of a presidential address last month.
But this is what the media like to do, and as a trained journalist, I know their M.O. well.
Reporters take a specific incident (i.e., the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol) and extrapolate it to make it seem representative of all Trump voters and supporters, and then take the leap that the nation is at risk!
Or, they will take the awful repugnant hammering of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband by a deranged believer in conspiracy theories as another “example” of political violence by the Right, as if there is no political violence to be concerned with on the Left (which there is).
To fuel the media frenzy, Joe Biden’s FBI issued a bulletin warning the country about the potential for “extremist violence” that could create voter intimidation for the midterms!
Loving to draw parallels to history in their stories, journalists (90 percent or more who lean Left) wake up each day thinking they are the shield to prevent the U.S. from becoming another Nazi Germany and that they have to write stories (great for click revenue) to warn us all about voting in these evil Republicans Nov. 8, who are backed by “election deniers.” (as if there have been no election deniers among Democrats who lose races).
In addition, few journalists (who also rank low in religious observance) will admit they are shills for the Democrats and are hyping the “democracy is threatened” phobia in order to influence the Nov. 8 elections to kill chances for Republicans to take control of Congress. Frankly, I am surprised Speaker Pelosi has not yet used the attack on her husband to rev up the liberal base to thwart a Red Wave.
It’s unreal how liberals who can be so utopian can also be so dystopic. However, we conservatives have used dystopia to our advantage, too.
The tea party movement was spawned within three months of Barack Obama taking office in January 2009. Tea party activists feared Obama and the Democrats, who then controlled Congress, were trampling on the Constitution by expanding government, notably the nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill, the auto and bank bailouts, Obamacare and a bevy of executive orders which Republicans said were unconstitutional. Attorney and commentator Mark Levin wrote that Obamacare signaled the government would “take control of the human body.”
The fear factor worked. The GOP took the House in 2010 and Senate in 2014.
But did the government take over the economy and major industries? Not really, although the economy remained stagnant until Trump came to office in 2017, capitalism seemed to survive. Tons of companies were born, especially in the tech area, and conservatives won elections.
Republicans have yet to find a replacement for Obamacare, which is now a government entitlement.
This dystopia manifests itself in other coverage—notably, the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Virtually all stories are talking about the worst-case scenarios of rape victims being unable to get an abortion. The reality is that most abortions are going to continue despite restrictions the states impose due to the growing use of abortion drugs which are federally preempted.
But these history lovers and their pals in the Democratic Party do not wish to look at this nation’s overall history — American democracy and free enterprise survived worst crises — a civil war in the 1860s; two world wars, a devastating depression in the 1930s, Vietnam, Watergate (in which the Constitution worked, and same with Trump in 2021) and race riots in the 60s and 70s that forever changed our cities.
Our judicial system and police may be under assault by political partisans, such as the Left’s war on police and “mass incarceration,” but it does function as a check on politicians and excessive power concentrated in a few, along with putting major criminals in jail.
We still have free speech in this country, despite cancel culture and social media censorship of posts (largely conservatives and conspiracy theorists). And, despite election integrity being under assault, the public has the opportunity every two years or so to “throw the bums out.”
So, all of this talk about “democracy under assault” and “political violence” is really an attempt to divert the voters’ attention from the real pressing problems of the day – – inflation, supply chain shortages, how far we spend to help Ukraine, excessive government spending and a bad energy policy leading to the highest gas prices since 2008.
There has been scant discussion in the campaign about the real threat to American democracy and the free world – communist China. James Poplar, wrote on this blog in September. “in the end, Democracy will probably survive, but our inability to work together will only lead to our continued decline as a world power. .. and our once vast military and technical superiority that is now being eclipsed by the PRC.”
I tend to agree with him. This is one issue where you would think Democrats and Republicans could “work together.”
The key question is this – if Republicans secure control of Congress on Nov. 8, can we focus on China in a bipartisan way?
But that takes leadership and we have a feeble man in the White House. However, there’s yet another election in 2024 where the public can rectify that.
