You Will Be Made To Care
"What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven." ~ F.A. Hayek
The very essence of American freedom has been the ability to leave others alone - unless they are breaking laws that were agreed by the people.
Not today.
Today you aren’t allowed to have or express an opinion that differs from that of some favored group or “movement”. It is not enough to leave people alone, because they can’t leave you alone. I’m not sure what is enough for some of the more radical groups, but just leaving them alone and letting them do their own thing just isn’t working for them. They can’t abide your thoughtcrime, that you are thinking they are wrong even if you never express that thought in public or to them. You can’t not care about them, they say, they are just too important for you not to affirm them with your full-throated support.
Anything less is bigotry.
I once compared them to Gladys Kravitz, the incredibly nosy neighbor of Darrin and Samantha Stephens on the old Bewitched TV show but it goes much farther than that because they are not just nosy – they are out to end you and your allegedly bigoted beliefs.
It is more “The Lives of Others” than “Bewitched”. Your mere existence is a crime against humanity.
For example, not liking drag shows for kids is the newest human rights violation.
I have never cared about drag shows or drag performers. I have never been to a drag show, never watched anything Ru Paul (RuPaul Andre Charles) has done, never watched any of the TV shows or series that try to mainstream drag. I never cared until Drag Queen story hour entered our schools and children were targeted as performers in, and audience members for, sexually explicit drag performances.
Yet, I am still ambivalent toward whatever adults want to do or see, but now my ambivalence is defined as hatred toward drag performers – and transexuals.
The newspeak definition of “bigoted beliefs” has little to do with actual bigotry, it is defined as any thought, word or deed that stands in the way of anything – and I mean anything in the literal sense – these groups want to do. Silence is violence. Speech is violence. Unspoken beliefs are violence. If you don’t want your child to be subjected to things that are at odds with your own beliefs, too bad. Your kids don’t belong to your bigotry. If you don’t swallow it whole and give them access to your child’s mind and body, you are a threat. They are trying to build a “better” world by destroying this one.
Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, as Stalin is purported to have said.
And that attitude permeates everything.
I’ve always thought of Mike Pence as the real-life invisible man. Probably the most inoffensive, bland, background noise choice for a Vice President that then candidate Trump could choose. Pence is, by all accounts, a good man, a Christian and a devoted husband and father.
But somehow, because he is a Republican, the left decided he was a Nazi.
CNN thinks he is a radical MAGA extremist now that he is running for President.
I watched a few clips of Pence and CNN’s Dana Bash this morning and it is clear that CNN believes you shouldn’t hold views different from theirs, regardless of the facts. Bash’s attitude toward the born to be mild former Vice President was remarkable, one of “Well, you might have been there when it happened but let me tell you what we know really happened”.
Every mainstream media personality has been locked into a view of things that has only two purposes, to protect Democrats and to damage Republicans – and it isn’t just the major national outlets. Several times over the past few months I have noticed that something that was reported at the national level then proven wrong within days after the report, still gets reported wrong at the local level – and heaven forbid it gets reported in the dead tree print media, because it will never be corrected.
CNN, MSNBC, and the Alphabet broadcast networks – and even Fox – have reported things that have been proven demonstrably wrong. From the “science” about Covid to the “science” on gender dysphoria, they reported politically advantageous positions rather than real science and now that hard, controlled, scientifically replicated studies are proving them wrong, they refuse to acknowledge their errors.
As Dan Bongino says, the media will report A story, but rarely reports THE story.
He is right – and in that, they are the same as the radical groups that chafe at the actual of “leave everybody alone” America freedom. The media’s mission is one and the same as these groups, to change society and give birth to Utopia.
Even if that “Utopia” is hell on earth.
Is there a word to describe the situation where a most all media, TV actors, K-12 to graduate school educators, medical doctors organizations, TV performers, scientists (who depend on government contracts for research), national law enforcement such as FBI and CIA are in cahoots with one particular political party?
Sadly the USSA has surpassed Big Brother and 1984's "two-minute hate". We now live in a society that demands we hate Russia 24/7 and most Democrats still hate Trump. More and more have become ambivalent and cynical. We are not accused of hating trannies: we have an unnatural FEAR of them, aka our "transphobia". For those versed in the Bible, we are united against sin in the New Babylon. Most have trouble accepting or even considering the thought that the USA has become the 4th Reich and that we are leading NATO in a war to conquer Russia and capture Moscow. Like all herd animals, the majority of Americans are satisfied to watch the 6:30 news and believe the performers and liars.