Fear of being punished by a crowd is not unique to Democrats, or liberals, or Americans. It is an innate human response to the dangers of being ostracized.
I posted this elsewhere but given the state of things ..
You know what concerns me the most : the MSM/press, the DNC, the Presidential advisors & cabinets who frequently have CONTACT with the President (amongst them our governor); many other politicians, big money donors, the Biden Administration, all of the secret service… not to mention the Biden family! The evidence played out in full view of the WORLD… the list is not only endless but these people have SECURITY CLEARANCE! Where is one individual who tells the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH & nothing but the TRUTH. Are they all malignant narcissists?It’s been a week & what was DISCOVERED was, is the very definition of scamming, of conning, of CONSPIRING &&& it was, is against the American people.I was brought up to tell the WHOLE TRUTH & respect my elders. What is happening should at least provoke a sense of indignation. But/&& instead of dealing with THAT CRIME, they’re fitting another Naked as a jay bird go round. The myopia is astounding.
The basic human nature to disbelieve factual evidence seems stronger now than it was in the past. Biden’s cognitive decline is one of many examples. The cancellation phenomenon, Covid gaslighting, trans + woman's sports ideology, mostly peaceful protests, to name a few. People decline to defect from their chosen group for fear of losing a job or “friends”. When the defense of the indefensible becomes personal attacks on the truth speaker instead of refuting the facts, we should at least question the megaphone wielding crowd. If the speaker is deplorable but the data and facts are solid, don’t reject the idea just based on the speaker.
Written in by Malcom Muggeridge over twenty years ago, it remains true today, just via contemporary platforms “The first Dark Ages are lost in the mists of antiquity, with virtually no records. The coming Dark Ages will be equally lost in the blaze of studio lighting, with a superabundance of records, almost all falsified.”
His autobiographical "Chronicles of Wasted Time", in which his observations of Walter Duranty's worthless "journalism" worth a read. Nothing, nothing has changed.
That so many people care more about party than country is a huge problem. Caring more about the electability of Democrats or Republicans rather the well-being of all the country's citizens will lead to civil war at some point in the future.
The people who lead and join the parties should be ostracized by everyone else.
It makes sense that people misrepresent their beliefs in step with friends, families, and colleagues, etc. But the same people supposedly pretending to believe that Biden is capable and that radical progressives make sense...are they still pretending when they vote?
The Faithful are very often afraid to state the obvious, even privately among the other Faithful. I recommend Howard Fast's autobiography and personal apology for his years of loyalty to the Communist Party: "Being Red". In it Fast explains how the CPUSA's inner circle of literary figures and intellectuals, almost all Jews and of which he was one, knew full well that something terrible had happened to Jewish writers, artists, and intellectual figures in Stalin's Russia beginning in 1948 and continuing to the well-publicized Doctor's Plot in 1952-53. Yet they were afraid even to discuss it among themselves, let alone speak of their fears to outsiders. Fast describes how, after Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" in 1956, attacking the crimes of Stalin (to which Khrushchev had acquiesced), Fast and the other Party intellectuals got together and basically acknowledge that they had known all along that something terrible was going on in the Soviet Union, but their loyalty to the Cause had forced them to remain silent. Until Khrushchev's speech effectively gave them permission to speak. Going forward to last week's debate. Exact same dynamics here.
The blame for where we are today falls squarely on the media. You expect politicians and the White House to spin, you expect voters to not pay attention. But journalists? I thought their job is to tell the truth. Mr. Kuran points out that all of the positive coverage of Biden came from "Democratic journalists". But ask those same journalists if they're shilling for the Democrats and they’ll insist that, oh no, they’re fair and unbiased. Nothing to see here! But they knew about Biden and they lied. And now they are shameless – has a single journalist apologized for their coverage? Nope, they’ve just turned on Biden and the Democratic party. Not since the NYTimes/Walter Duranty scandal of the 1930s has the legacy media had so much to answer for.
The people who lied and covered ups Biden's infirmity should be held accountable. Biden remaining in power is a national security threat. If he isn't fully in command of his capacities, how can he be the Commander- in- chief? The leader of the free world leading armies, generals and Naval fleets. Biden is not running the country. He's a puppet who can barely read a teleprompter. He can't even walk down steps on his own.The administrative state is running the country. Unelected officials. This is a betrayal to the American people. I didn't vote for the dept. of Education to rewrite my historic, civil rights laws (Title IX) as was done on 4/19/24. This was not pledged to me when Biden campaigned and won my vote. The democrats have proven that they don't care about the American people. They only care about clinging to power. And for this reason they will lose it.
“The democrats have proven that they don't care about the American people. They only care about clinging to power.” Amen to that!
In George Orwell’s “1984,” Inner Party member (and interrogator and torturer of Winston Smith) O’Brien declared to Smith: “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.” That is a succinct and accurate description of the current-day Democratic [sic] Party.
Arrogance - the Dems’ arrogance and self-righteousness built the house they now find crumbling before the eyes and ears they violently and unwillingly expelled from their own behinds last week.
Every Democrat running for re election will have to answer the question, "You knew of the Presidents's decline yet you chose to say nothing. You put party over country. How can we ever trust you again?"
How about the alternative democratic presidential candidates. Remember, Whitmer is a co-chair of Biden's Campaign and Harris is in daily meetings with him. I guess that leaves Gavin.
Everyone knows Trump exaggerates. He's a salesman who is used to puffing. OTOH, Biden lies seriously. Here's my non-exhaustive list of lies Dementia Joe told at the CNN debate:
• Biden rehashed the phony claim that Trump told people to inject themselves with bleach to fight COVID-19. Trump never used the word “bleach”; he instead referred to a new technology in which ultraviolet rays are used to fight viruses.
• Biden claimed unemployment was at 15% when he took office; the unemployment rate was 6.4% in December 2020, just weeks before Biden took office.
• Biden claimed that the Border Patrol union endorsed him; in fact, that union endorsed Trump.
• The number of illegal aliens pouring across the border has exploded under Biden, despite his false claim that there are fewer crossings now than when Trump was in office.
• Biden claimed he had lowered the cost of insulin shots to $15 under Medicare; in fact, the cost is $35 per shot, and it was Trump, in 2020, who created a voluntary program under Medicare Part D to reduce the price to $35. The 2022 ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ codified that price.
• Biden claimed he capped Medicare drug spending at $200 per year; in fact, it’s $2,000 per year.
• Biden claimed that Trump wants ‘to cut Social Security and Medicare’; in fact, Trump’s website says, ‘Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security.’
• Biden callously insisted that he didn’t have ‘any troops dying anywhere in the world.’ That ignores the 13 US soldiers killed in America’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan, as well as three killed by a drone attack in Jordan.
• Biden falsely claimed that billionaires only pay 8.2% in taxes; according to the IRS, the 400 wealthiest Americans pay an average federal tax rate of 23% – nearly three times higher than Biden claimed.
• Biden said people died on J6, when the only person to die was Ashli Babbitt, shot by a Capital police officer.
• Biden claimed inflation was at 9 percent when he came into office. That statistic is false. The inflation rate when Trump left office was 1.4 percent.
• Biden claimed that Democrats “are not for late-term abortion.” Biden has repeatedly promised to legalize unlimited, on-demand abortion through all nine months of pregnancy via a sweeping bill and routinely promoted taxpayer-funded abortion policies.
• Biden claims he "didn't" raise taxes on Americans making less than $400K/year. Biden raised the tax burden on Americans earning as little as $20K/year.
• Biden claimed Trump once said, “Hitler has done some good things.” As admitted by Snopes, there is no proof that Trump ever said this.
“Everyone knows Trump exaggerates. He's a salesman who is used to puffing.”
That is correct, and should come as no surprise to anyone. Trump spent decades in the real estate business, in New York City and elsewhere, where it is common and pervasive for everyone - builders, Realtors, sellers - to engage in exaggeration, puffery, hyperbole, etc. People can do an internet search of “real estate euphemisms” and see for themselves.
But Trump’s exaggeration, puffery, and hyperbole pale in comparison with the gigantic Republic-damaging lies, frauds, and hoaxes spawned and broadcast by his opponents, such as the Russia collusion hoax, the Charlottesville “neo-Nazis are fine people” hoax, the “laptop is Russian disinformation” hoax, and the years-long pre-06/27/2024 savage denials of Biden’s declining physical and cognitive condition.
And just to be clear, Trump never said anything about ingesting bleach, he asked the drs if there was some antibacterial that could be used. As a CEO I would imagine it is common practice to throw out all kinds of ideas to get people to think outside the box.
God forbid a president thinks outside the box! How can the administrative state keep them in check if they don't stick to the list of platitudes they issued them on their 1st day in the oval?
This whole situation is no joke. The Biden administration and its enablers in the press have been a disaster for this country and there is no way to know how far this will go. The Democratic Party—while claiming to “preserve democracy “—was willing to strong arm the electoral process so no one could run in a fair primary. Instead, the party and its courtiers in the press presented only one candidate who was clearly at the minimum cognitively impaired and who many polls showed few voters including Democrats wanted as their candidate for president. The Democratic Party is operating more or less like the mafia at this point. Hunter Biden (aka Fredo) is apparently sitting in meetings with no security clearance to help his father.
Live Not By Lies, Aleksandr, Solzhenitsyn
I posted this elsewhere but given the state of things ..
You know what concerns me the most : the MSM/press, the DNC, the Presidential advisors & cabinets who frequently have CONTACT with the President (amongst them our governor); many other politicians, big money donors, the Biden Administration, all of the secret service… not to mention the Biden family! The evidence played out in full view of the WORLD… the list is not only endless but these people have SECURITY CLEARANCE! Where is one individual who tells the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH & nothing but the TRUTH. Are they all malignant narcissists?It’s been a week & what was DISCOVERED was, is the very definition of scamming, of conning, of CONSPIRING &&& it was, is against the American people.I was brought up to tell the WHOLE TRUTH & respect my elders. What is happening should at least provoke a sense of indignation. But/&& instead of dealing with THAT CRIME, they’re fitting another Naked as a jay bird go round. The myopia is astounding.
The basic human nature to disbelieve factual evidence seems stronger now than it was in the past. Biden’s cognitive decline is one of many examples. The cancellation phenomenon, Covid gaslighting, trans + woman's sports ideology, mostly peaceful protests, to name a few. People decline to defect from their chosen group for fear of losing a job or “friends”. When the defense of the indefensible becomes personal attacks on the truth speaker instead of refuting the facts, we should at least question the megaphone wielding crowd. If the speaker is deplorable but the data and facts are solid, don’t reject the idea just based on the speaker.
Written in by Malcom Muggeridge over twenty years ago, it remains true today, just via contemporary platforms “The first Dark Ages are lost in the mists of antiquity, with virtually no records. The coming Dark Ages will be equally lost in the blaze of studio lighting, with a superabundance of records, almost all falsified.”
His autobiographical "Chronicles of Wasted Time", in which his observations of Walter Duranty's worthless "journalism" worth a read. Nothing, nothing has changed.
That so many people care more about party than country is a huge problem. Caring more about the electability of Democrats or Republicans rather the well-being of all the country's citizens will lead to civil war at some point in the future.
The people who lead and join the parties should be ostracized by everyone else.
It makes sense that people misrepresent their beliefs in step with friends, families, and colleagues, etc. But the same people supposedly pretending to believe that Biden is capable and that radical progressives make sense...are they still pretending when they vote?
The Faithful are very often afraid to state the obvious, even privately among the other Faithful. I recommend Howard Fast's autobiography and personal apology for his years of loyalty to the Communist Party: "Being Red". In it Fast explains how the CPUSA's inner circle of literary figures and intellectuals, almost all Jews and of which he was one, knew full well that something terrible had happened to Jewish writers, artists, and intellectual figures in Stalin's Russia beginning in 1948 and continuing to the well-publicized Doctor's Plot in 1952-53. Yet they were afraid even to discuss it among themselves, let alone speak of their fears to outsiders. Fast describes how, after Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" in 1956, attacking the crimes of Stalin (to which Khrushchev had acquiesced), Fast and the other Party intellectuals got together and basically acknowledge that they had known all along that something terrible was going on in the Soviet Union, but their loyalty to the Cause had forced them to remain silent. Until Khrushchev's speech effectively gave them permission to speak. Going forward to last week's debate. Exact same dynamics here.
Thanks for your work. Your book has been on my to get list for a while now. I intend to order it later today.
This a textbook example of a process detailed here over a year ago
https://www.thefp.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-self-censorship?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
The blame for where we are today falls squarely on the media. You expect politicians and the White House to spin, you expect voters to not pay attention. But journalists? I thought their job is to tell the truth. Mr. Kuran points out that all of the positive coverage of Biden came from "Democratic journalists". But ask those same journalists if they're shilling for the Democrats and they’ll insist that, oh no, they’re fair and unbiased. Nothing to see here! But they knew about Biden and they lied. And now they are shameless – has a single journalist apologized for their coverage? Nope, they’ve just turned on Biden and the Democratic party. Not since the NYTimes/Walter Duranty scandal of the 1930s has the legacy media had so much to answer for.
The people who lied and covered ups Biden's infirmity should be held accountable. Biden remaining in power is a national security threat. If he isn't fully in command of his capacities, how can he be the Commander- in- chief? The leader of the free world leading armies, generals and Naval fleets. Biden is not running the country. He's a puppet who can barely read a teleprompter. He can't even walk down steps on his own.The administrative state is running the country. Unelected officials. This is a betrayal to the American people. I didn't vote for the dept. of Education to rewrite my historic, civil rights laws (Title IX) as was done on 4/19/24. This was not pledged to me when Biden campaigned and won my vote. The democrats have proven that they don't care about the American people. They only care about clinging to power. And for this reason they will lose it.
“The democrats have proven that they don't care about the American people. They only care about clinging to power.” Amen to that!
In George Orwell’s “1984,” Inner Party member (and interrogator and torturer of Winston Smith) O’Brien declared to Smith: “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.” That is a succinct and accurate description of the current-day Democratic [sic] Party.
Exactly.
Arrogance - the Dems’ arrogance and self-righteousness built the house they now find crumbling before the eyes and ears they violently and unwillingly expelled from their own behinds last week.
Every Democrat running for re election will have to answer the question, "You knew of the Presidents's decline yet you chose to say nothing. You put party over country. How can we ever trust you again?"
How about the alternative democratic presidential candidates. Remember, Whitmer is a co-chair of Biden's Campaign and Harris is in daily meetings with him. I guess that leaves Gavin.
Everyone knows Trump exaggerates. He's a salesman who is used to puffing. OTOH, Biden lies seriously. Here's my non-exhaustive list of lies Dementia Joe told at the CNN debate:
• Biden rehashed the phony claim that Trump told people to inject themselves with bleach to fight COVID-19. Trump never used the word “bleach”; he instead referred to a new technology in which ultraviolet rays are used to fight viruses.
• Biden claimed unemployment was at 15% when he took office; the unemployment rate was 6.4% in December 2020, just weeks before Biden took office.
• Biden claimed that the Border Patrol union endorsed him; in fact, that union endorsed Trump.
• The number of illegal aliens pouring across the border has exploded under Biden, despite his false claim that there are fewer crossings now than when Trump was in office.
• Biden claimed he had lowered the cost of insulin shots to $15 under Medicare; in fact, the cost is $35 per shot, and it was Trump, in 2020, who created a voluntary program under Medicare Part D to reduce the price to $35. The 2022 ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ codified that price.
• Biden claimed he capped Medicare drug spending at $200 per year; in fact, it’s $2,000 per year.
• Biden claimed that Trump wants ‘to cut Social Security and Medicare’; in fact, Trump’s website says, ‘Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security.’
• Biden callously insisted that he didn’t have ‘any troops dying anywhere in the world.’ That ignores the 13 US soldiers killed in America’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan, as well as three killed by a drone attack in Jordan.
• Biden falsely claimed that billionaires only pay 8.2% in taxes; according to the IRS, the 400 wealthiest Americans pay an average federal tax rate of 23% – nearly three times higher than Biden claimed.
• Biden said people died on J6, when the only person to die was Ashli Babbitt, shot by a Capital police officer.
• Biden claimed inflation was at 9 percent when he came into office. That statistic is false. The inflation rate when Trump left office was 1.4 percent.
• Biden claimed that Democrats “are not for late-term abortion.” Biden has repeatedly promised to legalize unlimited, on-demand abortion through all nine months of pregnancy via a sweeping bill and routinely promoted taxpayer-funded abortion policies.
• Biden claims he "didn't" raise taxes on Americans making less than $400K/year. Biden raised the tax burden on Americans earning as little as $20K/year.
• Biden claimed Trump once said, “Hitler has done some good things.” As admitted by Snopes, there is no proof that Trump ever said this.
“Everyone knows Trump exaggerates. He's a salesman who is used to puffing.”
That is correct, and should come as no surprise to anyone. Trump spent decades in the real estate business, in New York City and elsewhere, where it is common and pervasive for everyone - builders, Realtors, sellers - to engage in exaggeration, puffery, hyperbole, etc. People can do an internet search of “real estate euphemisms” and see for themselves.
But Trump’s exaggeration, puffery, and hyperbole pale in comparison with the gigantic Republic-damaging lies, frauds, and hoaxes spawned and broadcast by his opponents, such as the Russia collusion hoax, the Charlottesville “neo-Nazis are fine people” hoax, the “laptop is Russian disinformation” hoax, and the years-long pre-06/27/2024 savage denials of Biden’s declining physical and cognitive condition.
At the now infamous Presidential debate, Biden said that he "killed Medicare".
Actually, Biden said "We beat Medicare." Trump replied that he didn't know what Joe was talking about and didn't think Joe knew either.
And just to be clear, Trump never said anything about ingesting bleach, he asked the drs if there was some antibacterial that could be used. As a CEO I would imagine it is common practice to throw out all kinds of ideas to get people to think outside the box.
God forbid a president thinks outside the box! How can the administrative state keep them in check if they don't stick to the list of platitudes they issued them on their 1st day in the oval?
This whole situation is no joke. The Biden administration and its enablers in the press have been a disaster for this country and there is no way to know how far this will go. The Democratic Party—while claiming to “preserve democracy “—was willing to strong arm the electoral process so no one could run in a fair primary. Instead, the party and its courtiers in the press presented only one candidate who was clearly at the minimum cognitively impaired and who many polls showed few voters including Democrats wanted as their candidate for president. The Democratic Party is operating more or less like the mafia at this point. Hunter Biden (aka Fredo) is apparently sitting in meetings with no security clearance to help his father.
Thank you again!
We need to preach that the truth is our friend.