Who Knows What the Truth is Anymore.....

After four long years of sustained, berserk attacks on the fabric of reality by the democrat Party, and "We have Them now, They're all going to jail, Just wait" BS coming from the right, the media they both support has become a parasitic organism that has latched onto the throat of the nation and will not let go. There is no way to repair or rehabilitate a media who's mindset is too hardwired into their business model, the careers (and book deals) of too many influential voices in the press are built on it, and too many young minds are irreparably warped too early on and too deeply as they are coming up and osmosing the norms of their profession.

Every time I hear or see or read the same, lavishly remunerated sock puppets jackhammering home the same, patently false narratives for the umpteen millionth time from impregnable media fortress that reach several million more people a week than I ever have or ever will, this is what it sounds like to me:

"Alpha children wear grey.  They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever.  I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children......" - Aldous Huxley, BNW

As corrupt and crippled as our politics has become, our system still demands that, every few years, the people who make our laws undergo a certain amount of scrutiny and an up-or-down hiring decision by the people they propose to represent. But as you may have noticed, that scrutiny is now routinely bent out of shape, so wildly distorted that on any given day all we seem to have is a choice of poisons; a fire-hose of relentless lies, irrelevant trivia, breathless horse-race gibberish, poll number recitations and 30 second ads.

And that is because the deciders who dictate the parameters of that political discussion, the Villagers who conspire to whisper "I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki." into our nation's ears a hundred times a day from a dozen angles, are themselves almost never scrutinized and held to account at all.