{"id":672,"date":"2019-06-01T21:54:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T21:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=672"},"modified":"2019-06-01T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T21:54:40","slug":"the-big-lie-how-the-right-wing-controls-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"The Big Lie – How the Right Wing Controls Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 1st<\/sup>, 2019<\/i><\/p>\n

Robert Mueller appeared on TV and told the nation \u201cIf we had had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watching it live, I didn\u2019t think there was anything unusual in that quote. After all, he says the same thing directly in his report. Anyone who read the report…oh, right. Most of the members of Congress haven\u2019t read the report. And they\u2019re the ones responsible for acting on the information it contains. It\u2019s a sign of the times when the best thing you can say about your Congressional representative is that he is too lazy and illiterate to function. But Mueller really didn\u2019t say anything that wasn\u2019t in the redacted version of his report. I\u2019m amazed how many people didn\u2019t know that.<\/p>\n

One Republican did read the report, a Republican from Michigan named Justin Amash. He immediately declared that Trump should be impeached, becoming the first Republican to favor impeachment. He held a town hall in his district to inform his constituents of why he reached the decision he did, and to defend it. Not your typical Republican, most of whom avoid their constituents these days. He wound up getting a standing ovation from an initially hostile crowd when he laid out his case.<\/p>\n

According to Brad Reed over at Raw Story;<\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0NBC News, Michigan Trump voter Cathy Garnaat said that she went to Rep. Justin Amash\u2019s (R-MI) town hall this week to challenge his view that Trump should be impeached \u2014 and she got caught off guard when he directly quoted from the Mueller report to justify his views.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised to hear there was anything negative in the Mueller report at all about President Trump,\u201d she admitted. \u201cI hadn\u2019t heard that before.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Garnaat went on to explain that none of the news shows she watches or listens to have ever gone into depth about the contents of the Mueller report.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve mainly listened to conservative news and I hadn\u2019t heard anything negative about that report and President Trump has been exonerated,\u201d she explained.<\/i><\/p>\n

In an earlier incident of truth meeting conservatives, Bernie Sanders went into the lion\u2019s den, a town hall on Faux News, and laid out his case for universal health care, a high minimum wage, free college, and a system of not-for-profit banks through the Post Office. Serenely confident that Sanders had only made the case that he was an American-hating Commie, the host asked the audience to indicate their displeasure with Sanders. They gave him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be surprised.<\/p>\n

The vast right wing conspiracy has been working for decades to section off a segment of the American population and essentially turn them into a cult, suspicious and disdainful of any outside information. In fact, the morning Mueller made his announcement, so damning to Trump, I was curious and looked to see how Faux News was playing it. Their header was \u201c\u00a0“Special counsel makes rare public statement to resign, says team was unable to charge Trump” No mention of the reason why he didn\u2019t charge Trump. Faux News viewers are ignorant, and Faux News spends a lot of time and money to keep them that way.<\/p>\n

While Rupert Murdoch\u2019s media empire has always presented a grave danger to western democracies, and is inimical to freedom and the non-wealthy, Murdoch is hardly functioning in a vacuum. For years, a nest of think tanks, blogs, radio networks, trash political \u201cChristian\u201d televangelists, along with corporations snapping up local newspapers, radio and television, have devoted themselves to being one seamless propaganda machine.<\/p>\n

One favored way is social media memes. Prior to that, they were mimeographs and copies in their twentieth generation, passed around at bars and water coolers and in chain letters.<\/p>\n

The method of transmission has gotten more sophisticated, but the propaganda tactics remain about the same.<\/p>\n

I got one passed along to me the other day, and in a time when the Republicans are working to lie their way to success, it seems a really good example of the messaging used by them.<\/p>\n

This one (replicated in full below) is putatively written by a family mother who is distraught because her children are supposedly being driven out of California by draconian policies promoted by Gavin Newsom, the rookie governor of the state.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not worried about copyright infringement. It\u2019s anonymous, which is an odd thing for a public letter to a political figure, and its actual provenance is open to considerable speculation. It may have been written by one of the stable of writers they keep at Heritage Foundation, or Regnery Press, or perhaps somewhere in Russia. It\u2019s so ham-fisted I think it could be a Russian troll outfit.<\/p>\n

I doubt very much the actual authors are going to step forward and demand credit.<\/p>\n

The opening lines are unalloyed pathos: \u201cThe boxes are filled. The bags are packed. The hearts are breaking. My family is about to be divided, separated, perhaps forever. I wish you cared.\u201d Oh, the heartbreak! Did any family ever suffer so? Why, this is as bad as the Trail of Tears, or the railroads to Auschwitz!<\/p>\n

But it gets worse: these innocents, driven from California by the cruel whips of Governor Gavin, are just one of millions, perhaps even billions, being driven from California!<\/p>\n

But there is hope! They are leaving the foul pestilence of the Golden State and headed for a shining beacon of hope: \u201cThe Real America\u201d. She doesn\u2019t describe this real America, but I have the impression it\u2019s something like Pleasantville before the colored folks showed up and ruined it. It is, however, in a \u201csouthern state\u201d where people show their patriotism by flying the Confederate flag. Apparently it differs from all of California in that it doesn\u2019t have dog feces and hypodermic needles on the sidewalks. That right there eliminates most southern states.<\/p>\n

The author cites a rise in communicable diseases, which while unfortunately true, isn\u2019t climbing as steeply in California as it is in the south (CDC). Children are at grave risk, it seems, but again, the South, which the Polly Klaas Institute identifies as having 38% of non-family\/kidnapping child abductions) has a far higher rate than the West (28%). It would seem our refugees are leaping from the frying pan and into the fire.<\/p>\n

The author concludes the first litany of grievances by telling the governor, who had nothing to do with the imaginary complains, that \u201c[Y]ou\u2019re concerned that I might ask for a plastic straw.\u201d Overuse and misuse of plastics is a growing crisis, one that will eventually kill more people than kidnapping, drug users, and Fresno combined. As far as I can tell, it hasn\u2019t hurt anything except plastic straw manufacturers, but for the noble Republican princess writing this, it\u2019s the clich\u00e9 that broke the camel\u2019s back.<\/span><\/p>\n

The woman (or study group, or St. Petersburg sweatshop) bitterly blames Newsom for not caring about the middle class. Which is being destroyed in America, it\u2019s true, but one can thank thirty years of Reaganomics and supply-side nonsense for that. Granted, California did<\/i> inflict Reagan on the land, and we\u2019re trying to live that down. But Newsom is continuing Brown\u2019s policy of shifting the tax burden upward to the wealthy, and increasing wages. That\u2019s how you build a strong middle class. You don\u2019t get one by giving your pension and half your income to your employer and hope they\u2019ll build a museum in your town or something.<\/p>\n

California, the whine continues, has car thefts and car chases. And that it does, most assuredly. But her answer, which seems to involve locking up millions more people, has been proven not to work. At one point, California\u2019s \u201ctenth largest city\u201d was the prison population, and all that did was breed gangs, hardened criminals, and organized crime. The author complains about the high rate of recidivism (61% in California, compared to 60% nationwide), but offers no solution beyond, \u201clock them up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next on the laundry list of whines is taxes. Yes, California has high taxes on gasoline, sales tax, etc. Part of the problem is that millions of wealthy Californians are protected from property taxes and wealth taxes. That has changed in recent years, and California is catching up from decades of Republican \u201cfeed the rich\u201d misrule.<\/p>\n

And yes, California has a problem with homeless people. But again, Newsom didn\u2019t create that problem, and has been working to address it for years. One wonders what the fictional author of the letter has done to address the issue. Besides putting an apartment up for rent by moving out, that is.<\/p>\n

It goes on in this vein, an unending and self-pitying whine about how horrible California is, and how wonderful the South is. Gas is only $2.00 a gallon! According to the writer. Except that the cheapest gas in the country is Mississippi, nobody\u2019s idea of paradise. California\u2019s gas is $1.50 a gallon more than Mississippi\u2019s, but California state taxes on gasoline amount to 35 cents a gallon. Mississippi\u2019s is 18 cents a gallon. Obviously something else is at play here, such as price manipulation by the oil industry.<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t she just joining her family and moving? After all, there\u2019s no reason for her to stay in California, and every reason to move. Doesn\u2019t having to pick hypodermic needles out of her flip-flops and paying $1.50 because state taxes are 17 cents higher get old?<\/p>\n

But the nature of this letter isn\u2019t to portray a real situation. The woman does not exist. Her situation does not exist. Many of the items she lays at the feet of Gavin Newsom either don\u2019t exist, or are things he has nothing to do with. They are blatant manipulation, with a glorious disregard for accuracy or truth.<\/p>\n

The intent of the letter is to inflame, and arouse feelings of resentment against California, a state that has, since 2008, consistently performed better economically and socially than the rest of the country. It is a success story of liberal governance, and the right wingers must pump out endless lies to vilify it and make it look like one of their own disasters, such as Kansas or Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

The article is written with scant regard for any truth whatsoever, and uses almost ridiculous levels of emotional manipulation to try to inflame the reader and shut down critical thought.<\/p>\n

The right wing has been spewing this nonsense by the thousands over the past 40 years or more. One thing they did learn from the Nazis and the Communists was that propaganda is a powerful tool, if applied unremittingly and relentlessly.<\/p>\n

The Cathy Garnaats of America\u2014and there are millions of them\u2014aren\u2019t vile deplorables who take glee in Trump\u2019s viciousness and contempt for American values. They don\u2019t hear about that. Instead, they hear about how Trump is a victim of anti-American forces who hate and despise everything they hold dear. Today\u2019s minute of hate is Meghan Markle, princess and wife of Prince Harry. She doesn\u2019t want to meet with Trump in London this week, and so Faux News is gleefully leading a chorus on their site of racist and sexist abuse. The deplorables, little better than Nazis, love it. The cultists, usually possessed of a more human core, turn from the viciousness, but wonder how Markle could be so disrespectful to such a wonderful president. They really do.<\/p>\n

They may have been born ignorant, as all of us have, but the right wing has used emotional manipulation and lies to keep them ignorant. Many, like Garnaat, need only be confronted by reality. Others will refuse to accept it and have a highly negative reaction.<\/p>\n

The propaganda won\u2019t end, because when you have to lie to the people to get your own way, they have to be big, simple lies, repeated endlessly.<\/p>\n

But if Trump is indicted for his crimes in the House (which is what Impeachment is), the propaganda machine will break down in the face of a mountain of evidence, and won\u2019t be able to prevent the Garnaats from seeing what is true.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, read the piece attached. It\u2019s a good lesson in finely honed propaganda, and a chance to hone your own reasoning skills.<\/p>\n

Chico Republican Women<\/p>\n

Community<\/p>\n

Chico Republican Women<\/i><\/p>\n

May 20 at 10:11 PM \u00b7 <\/i><\/p>\n

Shared<\/i><\/p>\n

The following is an open letter from a friend of mine here in CA whose anger and frustration at the ongoing destruction of the state has boiled over. It reflects the feelings of so many people I know here, myself included. My friend would like this to remain anonymous but hopefully get widespread attention, so please feel free to share:<\/i><\/p>\n

An Open Letter to Governor Gavin Newsom 5\/20\/19:<\/i><\/p>\n

Governor Newsom,<\/i><\/p>\n

The boxes are filled. The bags are packed. The hearts are breaking.<\/i><\/p>\n

My family is about to be divided, separated, perhaps forever. I wish you cared.<\/i><\/p>\n

Our wonderful daughter, along with her husband and their two young children has given up on life in California. The only place they\u2019ve ever called home has become intolerable for them. They\u2019ve found a new home in a southern state, far away from here, in the real America.<\/i><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard the story innumerable times- people leaving, or wanting to leave, what was once the paradise of the West Coast. Not so long ago, kids could walk down to the corner store, or to school, without their parents worrying about their safe return. No more.<\/i><\/p>\n

You once could visit a neighborhood park, and not fear for your life. No more.<\/i><\/p>\n

Walking across the street did not require careful examination of the pavement to avoid feces or used hypodermic needles. Now it does.<\/i><\/p>\n

Illnesses are again being seen in this state that had been rare or non-existent until recently. Typhus, Tuberculosis, Mumps, Measles, Hepatitis A, B, and C are all here again. A worker on the upper floors at L.A. City Hall recently came down with typhus, spread by rats living in the disgusting conditions around the Civic Center.<\/i><\/p>\n

But you\u2019re concerned that I might ask for a plastic straw.<\/i><\/p>\n

Your priorities for managing this state are crystal clear, and the middle class is nowhere near the top of the list. I learned in Civics class years ago that the primary job of government is to keep the people safe. What happened? When did our safety and well-being fall off the radar? Not too long ago, my daughter had her new vehicle stolen from her driveway, in the short time it took her to walk the kids to school. Someone was watching, waiting for them to leave. It gives me chills just thinking about it. <\/i><\/p>\n

You release violent criminals back onto our streets to terrorize our communities, you proudly remove the death-penalty as an option, sending a friendly message to the worst of the worst, and you handcuff our law-enforcement officers, challenging their every move. Officers now must take an extra moment, perhaps just a second, questioning their training and best judgment, before using any amount of force to apprehend a violent criminal. When this results in another dead cop, and it will, the blood will be on your hands, sir.<\/i><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, we watched on television as a violent felon led police on a three-hour pursuit, destroying property and narrowly missing pedestrians and other vehicles. We saw him brutally beat his female passenger while driving close to 100 mph. Then last week, a murder suspect shot at police out the window of the car he was being pursued in. It\u2019s a miracle nobody was killed. Turns out, both suspects were free on \u201cearly release\u201d through AB-109, that you and other politicians (who all live behind walls, with armed security) forced upon us in the name of compassion. Where\u2019s your compassion for law-abiding citizens, Mr. Governor?<\/i><\/p>\n

And don\u2019t get me started on taxes and regulations. The amount of money taken from us by this state is criminal. Just living here is expensive enough, but imagine trying to run a business and stay afloat. We have the highest gas prices\/taxes in the country, and still our roads are a mess. I recently hit a pothole and the damage to my car was over $1000. We pay you enormous sums to manage the state\u2019s affairs, yet people by the thousands sleep on our streets at night. Homeless encampments are everywhere, in neighborhoods we never imagined they\u2019d be. And still, you want more. There\u2019s a move now to weaken Prop. 13. No doubt it will pass. And I just read that you want to tax online sales now, too. Along with proposals to tax water, telephones, dairy products, fertilizers, health care, and more. But taxing those things will not affect the \u201csuper rich 1%\u201d. They\u2019re just more hits on the middle class. You Sacramento politicians have an insatiable addiction to other people\u2019s money. But many citizens have had enough and are walking away.<\/i><\/p>\n

Which brings me back to my family. They\u2019re closing their business here. You\u2019ll get no more of their hard-earned money. They\u2019ve purchased a home in their new state, big enough for the four of them and a dog or two. Maybe even a horse. The kids will get a great education. They\u2019ll be able to leave a window open at night, knowing that the criminals are the ones who are afraid- afraid of the police, afraid of the courts, and afraid of the citizens who exercise their right to defend themselves. Oh, and gas there is about $2 a gallon.<\/i><\/p>\n

Somehow, they\u2019ll have to survive without a Fantasy Train to nowhere, but I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll find a way to get by. Meanwhile, your tax base shrinks and Atlas shrugs. Soon the only people left here will be the very rich and the very poor. It\u2019s almost as if you planned it that way.<\/i><\/p>\n

And now, my family is broken. As are countless others. No more school plays, no more little league games. No more weekend breakfasts at IHOP or Thanksgiving dinners. I\u2019ll happily burn a ton of fossil fuel to go visit them at their new home as often as I can. But, I won\u2019t be there as an instant babysitter when needed on short notice, and I\u2019ll actually notice their growth from visit to visit. I\u2019ll pray every night for their safety and happiness in the years to come. And I\u2019ll cry that I can\u2019t hold them tight. I\u2019m angry as hell, and I miss them desperately already.<\/i><\/p>\n

But they\u2019ll get no going away card from you and no apologies. You simply don\u2019t care.<\/i><\/p>\n

Name withheld.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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