OPINION: MAGA mania

Traditional Main Stream Media has committed suicide, but the corpse will be with us for a while.  

We have elected the modern day equivalent of Hitler, a fascist dictator who will end democracy, force women to have babies, has unlimited powers granted by the Supreme Court, will jail his political opponents, has called white supremacists “fine people”, will put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad, directed people to drink bleach, overfeeds Koi fish, puts kids in cages and will cause the extermination of all life on planet earth. Of course, none of this is true…except the elected part.  

Everyone forms their own version of reality in their minds based on their observation of the world around them. Nobody forms a perfectly accurate personal reality because nobody has an absolute ability to differentiate accurate information from fiction. Life presents us with very few fiducial standards of the truth.  

How do we know if what we believe is true? There really isn’t a way to know for sure so what we do is to substitute what is “common knowledge” for the truth; it is true if all my friends believe it is true. Unfortunately a fiction does not become the truth if more people believe it to be true. 

There is a way to get an idea if someone’s reality is close to the truth. Your ability to extrapolate and predict future events is dependent on how accurately you perceive current conditions. If you have a climate model that predicts all glaciers will be melted in 10 years and they haven’t melted in that time then your climate model’s version of reality is not accurate.   

The Democrat Party, with the help of their media allies, has been engaged in widespread brainwashing for decades. The effort has been largely successful because their members accept the programming of the media outlets like MSNBC, CNN, & CBS. They tune in daily to be fed the official narrative without any opposing opinions to balance the equation. They believed every lie listed above is true because they were told it was true and because all their friends believe it also.  

Trump’s first term was beset by a constant litany of hoaxes. Starting with the Russian Collusion Hoax, the media incessantly offered repeated lies to inhibit the Trump agenda. Trump counter attacked the Democrat brainwashing by popularizing the term “Fake News.” Like the Emperor’s New Clothes, he introduced the idea that the news media could be misrepresenting the facts in pursuit of an agenda. While trust in the Democrat controlled media had started to decline under Obama, it accelerated under Trump and initiated a Hoax Doom Loop where lies begat bigger lies. 

As hoaxes were revealed to be hoaxes the magnitude of the next hoax had to increase. This pushed the Democrats further away from an accurate perception of reality. We saw this clearly as Biden’s mental acuity fell at an alarming rate while the media described him as “sharp as a tack” and “top of his game,” which wasn’t even in the same zip code as the truth. Once the debate happened, Biden’s mental distress could not be hidden from anyone, including Democrats. The Hoax Doom Loop collapsed; an emergency Biden replacement was needed.  

In a demonstration of sheer brainwashing power, Kamala Harris was transformed from the least liked vice president to the flagship of the Democrat Party. Tens of millions of Democrats were reprogrammed overnight to accept her as their new standard bearer even though she was clearly an empty vessel entirely dependent on her handlers for direction and control. They would have gotten away with it, except…. 

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and the release of the Twitter Files revealed just how deep the Fake News rabbit hole went and how extensive the collusion was between the deep state and social media. Twitter’s metamorphosis to X was a reality shift which broke the media’s monopoly on “facts.” The truth is a stubborn thing.  

As the truth started to leak out the Democrat media pushed its narrative ever harder, deliberately using language to incite two assassination attempts. As the hyperbola increased the lies became more obvious and many Democrats awakened to the truth. Robert Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and others began to see the gears of the machine and were appalled. They changed camps to support Trump.  

Meanwhile Trump used the Biden strategy and avoided the Democrat media. They can’t use your words against you if you don’t talk to them. Trump instead turned to the new populous medium, independent media and podcasts. He appeared on several and his three hour free form interview with Joe Rogan earned 40 million views in three days.   

This contrasts with Harris’ inability to coherently answer questions on policy to the degree that CBS’s 60 Minutes, an icon of the legacy media, doctored a response from Harris to make it seem coherent. That wasn’t journalism, that was advocacy.  

Traditional Main Stream Media has committed suicide, poisoned by their elevation of agenda over truth.  

The Trump victory has triggered a mental health crisis among Biden/Harris supporters. Their Jenga Tower of constructed reality has collapsed and the ensuing confusion and cognitive dissonance will be profound. Expect social unrest, protests and riots. Stay clear and stay safe. 

We are potentially at the threshold of a Golden Age. Pray for the safety of our President Elect. 

It’s just common sense.

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Brent Regan is chairman of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee.