By Jeff Davidson
For nearly two weeks and counting, Democrats have been highly distressed by Donald Trump’s magnificent victory and the GOP’s trifecta sweep. With honest reporting, however, missing from mainstream media for more than two decades, Democrats might have avoided their current pain and gnashing of teeth.
Please, Gaslight Us Some More
An honest press would have reported that Kamala Harris was ducking key questions, botching interviews, and offering word salad responses. Worse, she learned nothing from one interview to the next and she was unprepared to address fundamental issues, while her handlers ignored these deficiencies.
All the while, the mainstream press touted her as a skillful leader, someone who would carve a new path forward, fight for the middle class, and unleash an “opportunity economy.” If the press had cited her glaring deficiencies in running for the highest office in the land, she and her team might have been able to make course corrections and thereby exhibit a better showing.
Instead, the mainstream press propped her up, along with inauthentic pollsters, strongly suggesting that it was a tight contest between Harris and Trump, and that Harris was the superior candidate! Likewise, reporters failed to offer balanced reporting on her running mate, Tim Walz, and generated countless features about what a great VP he would be.
An Approach Worth Forsaking
As such our mainstream press has managed to convince a majority of voters that they are not to be trusted: that the press has no desire to offer fair and balanced reporting. Yet, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” approach to propping up a presidential candidate will no longer work – Biden in 2020 will prove to be the last.
As many have observed, the mainstream press is merely an advocacy press, a branch of the Democratic National Committee, committed to championing a vast array of Leftist causes.
The press went into overdrive claiming that Donald Trump sought to overthrow the government and that he was a criminal many times over, as well as a rapist, a perjurer, and a traitor. Despite everything that the press threw at him and attempted to pass on to American voters, their own reputation, credibility, and credentials were mistrusted by most voters.
The press hoodwinked the very people who were on their side, while completely turning off those who had even a modicum of common sense.
The Gap Widens
The gap now between those on the Left and what they think they know, and those on the Right, is wider than ever.
Democrats live and work in a convoluted information bubble, taking their cues from The New York Times, on down. Online, they never venture even two or three clicks away to seek alternative views which could provide a more well-rounded picture of contemporary issues.
Too many Democrat today are like young children who are completely dependent on their parents for vital instruction on how to proceed in this world. Democrat voters, nevertheless, are adults. Rather than depending on parents, they depend on a corrupt corporate media machine that, politically, has no intention providing an objective view.
Everything Democrat voters think they know about Donald Trump, they learned from the same press that hid Biden’s senility from them for more than three years. Everything they think they know about the Right, they learned from a compromised press that has not had a kind word for a conservative politician in eons.
Hitler Clones Everywhere!
If you doubt the statement above, consider the array of Republicans, going back more that 60 years, that the press has likened to Hitler, at one time or another including Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney (circa 2001), Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Ron Desantis, and, of course, Donald Trump.
At each point, when the mainstream press labels GOP politicians as “Hitler,” Democrats scoop it up as if it’s chocolate sauce with chopped walnuts nuts and whipped cream on an ice cream sundae. The dehumanization of Republicans makes it easy for rank-and-file Democrats to both hate Republicans and to never consider their accomplishments and capabilities.
So, as Democrats headed into the November election, to them, Donald Trump unquestionably was, and is, in league with the devil, and Kamala Harris is an angel sent to Earth to offer us effective, enlightened leadership. And, since the majority of voters backed the GOP, we surely must be racists, homophobes, xenophobes, and misogynists.
Yeah, sure thing.
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Jeff Davidson is “The Work-Life Balance Expert®” and the premier thought leader on work-life balance, effectiveness, integration, shift, blend, and harmony. Jeff speaks to organizations that seek to enhance their overall productivity by improving the effectiveness of their people. He is the author of Breathing Space, Perfect Timing, Simpler Living, Dial it Down, and Everyday Project Management. Visit BreathingSpace.com or call 919-932-1996 for more information on Jeff’s keynote speeches and seminars.
