ARE WE HERE YET?

 

I’ve noted before that fear sells when it comes to the press. They not only thrive on it, they encourage it. If you don’t believe that then look at the headlines at the top of Drudge today. You’d think the world ended and the apocalypse predicted in MAX MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME was already here.

-CDC internal report calls Delta variant as contagious as smallpox 

-Millions infected daily?

-Significance of “breakthrough” infections not clear

-Mask decision followed Cape Cod outbreak

-Capitol Police ordered to arrest barefaces

-School debate erupts anew weeks before classes resume

-Feelings of déjà vu amid more mandates, restrictions

-Front-line workers in FL say surge “feels like impending storm”

-“Crazy” wait times at testing sites

-Some chasing extra dose, while scientists debate

-NFL QB jabbed after pressure from league: “They’ll make life miserable”

-Pandemic leads to another summer of anger

-Biden mask back on

-Military ‘mandatory injections’

-Sydney readies for the army as lockdown fails to quash Delta variant

-LA schools mandate weekly testing for students, teacher

-‘Covid with a vengeance’ consumes politics

I know that most of us have had someone touched by Covid since this all began. I had a family member who tested positive. The result? Some headache, some nausea for a few days. After that all done. Now don’t get me wrong I know there are some who had it worse and many who have died. But consider all of the people you know, your day to day life, your going to the grocery store, your family get togethers. Do you see signs of the apocalypse there? 

When you think about it the worst thing about this has been the politicization of it all. The government talking about forcing people to take vaccines. Government groups arresting people for not wearing masks, especially odd since they told us if vaccinated you don’t need them. Biden and Harris saying they wouldn’t take a vaccine if it was made under Trump only to months later condemn people for not taking the same vaccine prepared under Trump; and then claiming others were responsible for people’s unwillingness to get the vaccine. Borders closed to the north while thousands who test positive are allowed to come across the southern border and shipped to cities across the country. Telling us to trust the government who says one thing one week, the opposite the next and then reverses to the first item a week later. Yes, information changes but why not stop rushing to judgement only to change days later?

With all of this explosive news one would think Covid was the number one cause of death in the US in 2020. Except it wasn’t. It came in third. First was heart disease and second was cancer. Then you have unintentional injuries, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease and suicide. I understand and Covid is different from the first two because it can be transmitted from one person to another but why are we not seeing as large a concern for every other item on the list? And if we are forcing people to be vaccinated, when we see the same edicts given to the other items on the list?

Here’s the thing about Covid. It’s out there. It will always be out there with new variants popping up from time to time. If you don’t believe that consider that influenza is still on that list and it’s been around for centuries. Take precautions, get the vaccine and wear a mask. But don’t condemn others for choosing not to. And stop with the Chicken Little scenarios. It’s not helping the country when you do so.

WE ARE NOT WHO THEY CLAIM WE ARE; WE ARE UNITED

 

I mentioned “self-fulfilling prophecy” On Facebook. There’s a great example of it going on right now.

For most people their day to day lives consist of going to work, coming home, doing things around the house, eating dinner, watching TV and going to bed. Weekend are spent dealing with bigger things around the house, going places, being with family and things like that. The average person, the majority of people, are doing this day in and day out. They have jobs, they don’t have time to join hate groups. But the press goes on and on about them as if they were marching down each and every Main Street in America.

They have pushed this narrative of a racist country for decades in spite of things finally getting better. As each generation realized the mistakes of the past, things improved. Starting in the 60s, which you have to realize is now 60 YEARS AGO, the changes began. Blacks were on TV series and commercials, being paid on sports teams and in commercials and separate bathrooms were being changed to just two, men and women. The 70s showed a surge in movies with Blaxploitation films making blacks heroes, blacks were not just included in series but were the lead characters as well, inclusion and representation in more and more things on a daily basis was happening. All of this continued with each passing decade. But one thing didn’t change much. 

Blacks still weren’t moving into better paying jobs. They’d been sold a bill of goods for decades saying “Vote for me and I’ll take care of you”. Except it didn’t happen. Instead politicians like LBJ destroyed the black family unit and black fathers were replaced with government fathers paying the bills and raising kids. It is perhaps the single worst thing to happen to blacks in the country. It increased the number of crimes committed by blacks and an increase in black gangs.

This was boosted in a time when it should have decreased. Barrack Obama was our first black President. That should have been a great moment for blacks in this country and in some ways it was. But here again we had a Democrat pledging to save people and he did nothing to help them. Wages for blacks didn’t rise significantly his 8 years in office. And he blamed white people, in particular police officers, for all the ails that took place for blacks in this country. It was the initial wedge being planted between whites and blacks again.

Then we had a rash of police involved shooting deaths involving white officers and black suspects. Except that it wasn’t a rash or huge number. It was like single digits and almost all of them involved criminals committing crimes. But that’s not what we heard. That caused the rise of a Marxist organization (their words not mine) who focused on the deaths of blacks in this country. Unless those deaths were committed by blacks against blacks (the number one killer of young black men today in this country) or abortion clinics. That organization took in millions of dollars preaching hate and claiming this was rampant in this country. As the dust settled slightly we found out that all of those donations weren’t going to local chapters and the leaders of the group were buying multiple properties, some on posh white neighborhoods filled with people they claimed to hate.

Now that self-fulfilling prophecy. Throughout all of this, from the 60s forward to now, one group profited highly from these events. The mainstream media promoted racism in this country. Seriously. News is based on alarmism. You create a boogeyman to scare children and tell them stories about him on nightly news. In this case white supremacist and Klan members. Early on these people were rightly vilified and they began to crawl into obscurity. Groups like the SPLC were trotted out by the press to inform us that it was still raging across the country. The thing is we didn’t see these groups. Almost ever.

That all changed when Trump was elected. Not because he encouraged it, he actually condemned racist organizations routinely but you’d never know that watching the nightly news. For the first time in decades we actually saw a racist group show up on TV in Charlottesville. And then they disappeared again. But that didn’t stop the press. They could now jump up and down screaming “See! We told you they were there!” And then they disappeared again.

But the press continued their claim that these people were out there rioting in the streets and causing issues in this country. To boost this claim they began labeling anyone who disagreed with them as racist. If you thought all lives matter and not just black lives, you were told you were a racist. If you supported that policies of the Trump administration, things like policies that saw significant rises in median household income levels and wages of blacks rise for the first time in decades, you were labeled a racist. If you spoke your mind and it wasn’t a woke mind, you were a racist.

Night after night, day after day, we were being bombarded with this information from the press. And it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. After claims had been made for decades people began to believe what they were being told. Recent surveys show that many Americans believe that racism is alive and well in this country, that it is thriving. Why? Because they have been told repeatedly that it has.

Stories of people like George Floyd were claimed to be the norm rather than the exception. This led to calls to defund the police. If you’d listen to the news you’d think that’s what everyone wants. Some cities went so far as to follow through with this, taking money from police departments and putting it into social systems instead. The end result was fewer officers and a rise in crime. Some of these cities saw a 700% rise in their murder rates. The hardest hit neighborhoods were those of color and impoverished neighborhoods. In those neighborhoods blacks were not calling for fewer police but for MORE police. Almost every survey of these neighborhoods saw that 70-80% of blacks living there wanted MORE police. But that doesn’t make for a good soundbite for a politician on TV.

And those racists scum we were told about, our biggest boogeyman? The Biden administration and the FBI have told us that white supremacist are our most feared domestic terror group at present. All funding and efforts are aimed towards taking down these groups. None of these groups are named though. And we haven’t seen evidence of their doing anything. At least with foreign terrorists we saw them take down two towers, get on planes, kill our soldiers in other countries and more. Here though? Crickets.

And while those crickets chirp when it comes to these racists terrorists we watched as buildings were being burned to the ground in Democrat run cities across the country. Federal buildings and police stations were set afire. People were being brutalized and in some cases killed by groups like antifa. Cars were carjacked. Streets were blocked and cars forced to drive elsewhere. A section of one city was set aside for protesters resulting in death, rapes, theft and more in that area with no police protections. Make no mistake these groups were definitely terrorist groups. But Democrats called them a myth. They said they didn’t exist as video upon video showed them doing these misdeeds. The press portrayed them as “peaceful protesters” as building burned in the background.

When January 6^th happened the press had a field day. There was those racists’ boogeymen! There they were trying to overturn our country and destroy democracy! They were mostly white so they had to be racists! They were terrorist trying to harm this great land.

While we had a steady stream of violence for three months across the country that destroyed lives, businesses and billions of dollars in property damage none of that was called an act of terrorism. And it went on for months and months. January 6^th took place on one day and after 5 hours it was all over and things went back to normal.

If you think a bunch of unarmed people waving American flags can completely overturn our system of government in a single day I have to wonder about you. This group was nothing more than a collection of people who were unhappy about election results and got carried away. The amount of damage they did that day was a few windows and a door. No buildings were burned to the ground. No businesses were destroyed. With the exception of one of the protesters no one was killed by what took place. How could you possibly believe that our system of democracy, our government, could be completely upended by 3-400 people walking through the Capitol building while we have thousands upon thousands of military personnel in this country, thousands upon thousands of police officers in this country? Really?

I think our country is stronger than that. And if people simply turned off the network news and cable news stations who make it their business to create turmoil rather than appease it they’d know this. If they sat on their porch and said hi to their neighbors they’d see just how peaceful this country really is. No one is walking down the aisle of the supermarket yelling racial epithets at people of color. They see people they know, smile, wave and say hi. Their lives are not ruled by racist beliefs in spite of what the press and left wing politicians want us to believe.

The press does this because it sells. The old adage “if it bleeds it leads” is still true to this day. The thing is that they encourage the worst in people giving them air time. Politicians know too that if you create something to fear they can control you as well. Present people an evil and make them think you are there to right all wrongs, to finally give them justice and to protect them and you’ll get votes which is all they care about.

A simple question. After months of riots, burning buildings, looting, killing in the streets, congress has not impaneled an investigation of what took place. As a matter of fact many of those people who were arrested doing these things have been released without charges. On the other hand a congressional inquiry has been established for what happened during 5 hours on January 6^th. Almost 500 people have been arrested and jailed for actions from that day. A man walking peacefully through the Capitol that day was just sentenced to 8 months in prison. He was guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time waving the wrong flag. So why are we focusing so much on that day but not the months previously? Unless you’re using it for political purposes.

How about we do this. We stop watching those news programs that promote outrage and violence. Or we start digging deeper into the things they tell us so we can learn the WHOLE story. And how about we continue to sit on the porch, wave to the neighbors and be the normal people we are. The normal people that the news folks and politicians have no clue make up the majority of this country. The good people that know first-hand that racism isn’t running rampant, that black and white people live together fine every day, that police are actually good people and that hate isn’t ruining this country, news people and politicians are.