I woke up early this Sunday morning, and did something I should not have done. I checked into the internet and read several news articles about the transition to the new administration. And then I went to church – filled with anxiety and fear for the future. It took me all of mass to decompress and accept again the results of the past election.
In conversations with one of my brothers, we arrived at the conclusion that this past election was a turning point and it revealed the character of the United States. More than half of the population supported a convicted felon for president. A man that we all know to be immoral, corrupt and willing to do anything to stay in power. And now he is filling his cabinet with low-lifes that have no other purpose than destroy our government as the mission of the new administration.
The thing is, is that 90% of the people I circulate with, probably voted for this “change” and I would hazard a guess that the Latinos in our Central Oregon community supported el terrorifico in mass. Which is ludicrous.
How did we get here?
I would say that most of us share a concern for the future of our children. Every parent wants their children to live in a society where safety, health, education, independence, self-sufficiency, and freedom are prioritized. So, how do we get to the point where more than half the population supports a criminal for President? A person that has told us he will restrict freedoms, pursue people he considers to be “enemies within”, and align with Russia and Saudi Arabia in international dealings?
We got here because of frustration, bad information, group think, inequality, consumption debt, lies and more lies. That is how we got here. And I think the big one is inequality.
Inequality is baked into our society, and it will become worse now before it gets better. Many people no longer believe the American Dream. That is that if you wake up early and work hard all day long, that you will get ahead and be successful and happy. Nobody buys that crap anymore. We all know that certain individuals in our society have more rights and freedoms than others and it has to do with wealth more than anything else. And the GOP has been a powerful motor for increasing inequality by providing tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations. Or tell me that isn’t so?
Social media plays a major role here also. Most people are not super interested in politics and only pay superficial attention to policy or the consequences involved with political decisions. And with a superficial interest, social media group think and defective information, more than half of our population has been mislead in important ways. We know that Fox Entertainment provides “entertainment” not news. The entertainers on Fox, do not provide a fair and balanced view as they suggest, but instead we now accept that Fox News will broadcast lies and mistruths if it serves their purpose or the purposes of the political party that they support (they are only offering “entertainment” as they call it). “Truth” has nothing to do with Fox News, and increasingly has nothing to do with the GOP party. And we have accepted this.
If half of the people in the US understand that they use faulty information for their decision-making, and at the same time accept it along with an immoral, corrupt, felon as their leader, then we are in a difficult place.
Think I am a little bias or off base here? Well,… maybe I am. But hear me out and consider what our hero Elon has been up to in the last couple of days. Does everyone remember Alex Jones of InfoWars – the guy that is famous for a continuous vomit of hate? Well, …after his Sandy Hook hate fest he was finally held responsible for his lies and deception, and long story short, his company (Free Speech Systems) was sold at auction. The winner of the auction and new owner (The Onion; a satirical website, along with several Sandy Hook families) plans to mothball the different social media sites, – basically taking the lies and hate offline.
Musk won’t stand for that. As the owner of “X”, he says that he owns the X accounts of Free Speech Systems, and that the X accounts cannot be taken down.
Elon Musck wants the lies and hate to be available for all! It is important to Elon that Alex’s lies and hate over the years, be preserved and made available in our information ecosphere.
“Elon Musk, hands down, is a hero,” Jones said on a recent episode of his Infowars show, praising the billionaire X owner for intervening in his case.
Does anyone have an opinion about any of this?
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