So I turned on the news the other day. That was my first mistake. I like to keep myself informed, I guess, but turning on the mainstream news hardly helps one to gather concrete information. It does, however, allow you to see the type of idiocy that goes on in our nation's capital, so I turned on the TV around 6:00 P.M to see what was happening. All the evening news programs were on and they were all, without fail, discussing the allegations that the Russians were involved in hacking and proliferating negative information in order to manipulate the election. For some reason, they were all stating this as if it were a negative thing. Imagine that! The press is criticizing someone for spreading information! Could the media "out" themselves any more clearly? What more could they do to reveal their patent bias?
Get this. The Democratic party, along with their bedfellows in the media, are accusing Russia, one of the most powerful nations in the world, of manipulating our Presidential election by revealing hidden information about one of the candidates! Well, two things. First off, if Russia did, in fact, manipulate our election, then they clearly learned from the best, namely, the United States of America. What have we done for the last five decades if not manipulate the affairs of just about every foreign country (at least the ones with oil)? We send soldiers. We send weapons. We topple dictators and intimidate regimes. America, of all countries, has no room to be accusing Russia of interfering with our election!
Secondly, let these accusations really soak in for just a second. They are accusing Russia of telling Americans how corrupt our government is! How dare they?! Have you ever heard anyone deny any of the details that have come to light through the WikiLeaks dumps? Even in the debates Hillary chose not to do so. Have you seen anyone claim that the information being released was fraudulent? Nope. It's all real. It's all verifiable information. The media, if they had any ethical fortitude whatsoever, should have been on the cutting edge of this whole thing. They should have been pushing for transparency and accountability. They should have been calling Hillary to answer for the litany of damning revelations that were made over the course of the final months of the campaign. They have done nothing of the sort.
So why are we still talking about this? You can be sure that everything in D.C. is calculated, as is everything the mainstream media allows into our homes. What benefit could they possibly receive from spreading anti-Russian sentiment? It's a distraction, my friends. That's all I can figure. How much have you heard about WikiLeaks lately, outside of the blame being laid on Russia? How much have you seen going around about the Clinton Foundation and the trail of bodies in Hillary's wake? Not much, right? Once the election was over, all that went away. Trump hasn't talked about it. The media isn't talking about it. Even the internet has gone cold on us! Instead, everyone's trying to figure out who was behind it all.
What does this mean for our society? Well, firstly, it means we have a short memory. We wail on Facebook when someone dies or some catastrophe happens, but we forget about it a week later. We were all up in arms about Hillary this and Hillary that, but now that season is over and we don't care. Secondly, and more significantly, this means that truth-tellers can't survive in our culture, which is a sign of a corrupt, tyrannical government and system. They control the information. If information gets out that they don't want you to possess, instead of punishing those implicated by this information, they punish those responsible for getting the information out there. Ever heard of Edward Snowden? Yeah, that's what our country does to the people who have the courage to be whistle-blowers.
So, whether Russia had anything to do with the WikiLeaks thing or not, it shouldn't really matter. Sure we should make sure our nation is secure from international hackers, but, no, that should not deflect our attention from the corruption being uncovered. Wrong doing, once uncovered, should be paid for, regardless of how that information came to light.
Get this. The Democratic party, along with their bedfellows in the media, are accusing Russia, one of the most powerful nations in the world, of manipulating our Presidential election by revealing hidden information about one of the candidates! Well, two things. First off, if Russia did, in fact, manipulate our election, then they clearly learned from the best, namely, the United States of America. What have we done for the last five decades if not manipulate the affairs of just about every foreign country (at least the ones with oil)? We send soldiers. We send weapons. We topple dictators and intimidate regimes. America, of all countries, has no room to be accusing Russia of interfering with our election!
Secondly, let these accusations really soak in for just a second. They are accusing Russia of telling Americans how corrupt our government is! How dare they?! Have you ever heard anyone deny any of the details that have come to light through the WikiLeaks dumps? Even in the debates Hillary chose not to do so. Have you seen anyone claim that the information being released was fraudulent? Nope. It's all real. It's all verifiable information. The media, if they had any ethical fortitude whatsoever, should have been on the cutting edge of this whole thing. They should have been pushing for transparency and accountability. They should have been calling Hillary to answer for the litany of damning revelations that were made over the course of the final months of the campaign. They have done nothing of the sort.
So why are we still talking about this? You can be sure that everything in D.C. is calculated, as is everything the mainstream media allows into our homes. What benefit could they possibly receive from spreading anti-Russian sentiment? It's a distraction, my friends. That's all I can figure. How much have you heard about WikiLeaks lately, outside of the blame being laid on Russia? How much have you seen going around about the Clinton Foundation and the trail of bodies in Hillary's wake? Not much, right? Once the election was over, all that went away. Trump hasn't talked about it. The media isn't talking about it. Even the internet has gone cold on us! Instead, everyone's trying to figure out who was behind it all.
What does this mean for our society? Well, firstly, it means we have a short memory. We wail on Facebook when someone dies or some catastrophe happens, but we forget about it a week later. We were all up in arms about Hillary this and Hillary that, but now that season is over and we don't care. Secondly, and more significantly, this means that truth-tellers can't survive in our culture, which is a sign of a corrupt, tyrannical government and system. They control the information. If information gets out that they don't want you to possess, instead of punishing those implicated by this information, they punish those responsible for getting the information out there. Ever heard of Edward Snowden? Yeah, that's what our country does to the people who have the courage to be whistle-blowers.
So, whether Russia had anything to do with the WikiLeaks thing or not, it shouldn't really matter. Sure we should make sure our nation is secure from international hackers, but, no, that should not deflect our attention from the corruption being uncovered. Wrong doing, once uncovered, should be paid for, regardless of how that information came to light.
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