What We've Learned From the Media

Now that Trump 2.0 is at full acceleration and dominating the news cycle every day, I have been reflecting on the recent years full of nonsense, lies and misdirection the media has foisted on America. All the while claiming to be the champion and last line of the defense of Democracy.

You know the ones; Cable and Network news host that probably couldn't pass a standard 9th grade civics test babble on about 2.0 and his nazi sidekick with their guest, the former this or former that, or a twenty something reporter/network legal analysts who's daddy is probably an attorney, spout mumbo jumbo jargon they probably picked up from reading John Grisham novels and spoon feed the public turd soup. So what have we learned from these people, the self appointed fourth branch of government. The saviors of democracy. The Media.

We've learned from the media top bureaucrats who supposedly serve at the pleasure of the President are actually entitled to their jobs and firing them is some kind of crime against an unstated law, with the president presumed guilty unless he can prove he had an acceptable reason for terminating or reassigning them.  We've learned that 'Made Men' of the bureaucratic empire and its political wing, the Democrat Party, cannot be investigated for corruption unless the most exquisite preliminary rituals are followed and the investigators can demonstrate the absolute purity of their intentions.

We've learned it's heroic for the bureaucracy to organize "resistance" against the elected president and congressional representatives, if the Washington empire disapproves of the voters' choices. We've learned a President the imperial bureaucracy likes can issue executive orders that cannot be reversed by presidents it disapproves of. The people are belatedly informed that some matters are settled forever on the "one man, one vote, one time" principle. The essence of self-government, the true right that matters above all others, is the right to say "no." We've learned over the past three years that the American people no longer have that right in most cases, but their nominal employees in the federal government do.

We learned from the media that obscure lower-court judges can hijack entire segments of national policy on a whim. Some of these imperial proclamations have been expressly premised on the notion that American citizens have less to say about their own government than foreign nationals do. If the imperial bureaucracy makes a demand of you, good luck with trying to work up a "resistance" movement. Good luck getting any favorable attention from the media that has fused with that bureaucracy and enjoys a revolving door of employment with it.

The media made gleefully clear if you, the Little People, cast votes the imperial bureaucracy doesn't like... well. They'll fight you every step of the way and spend untold millions of YOUR dollars against you. Then they'll get in front of cameras and expect you to applaud them as heroes. It was always a swindle to convince the American people that one group and one group only serves as a failsafe check against authoritarian power as they themselves conspire with those that are exercising it.  

We were lulled into thinking our government could never become dictatorial, no matter how much power it claims, because we can always vote the bums out. Guess what, kids? As we've seen since 2017, most of the power and money is controlled by people you never get to vote against. And we learned that the people you don't vote for have been very capable of defending their privileges against the people who DO.

And now, with 2.0, we are learning that far more issues than we ever suspected were in the eyes of the imperial bureaucracy, considered "settled."