I honestly don’t know what to do with what’s considered conservative media today. They sit and listen to the President of the United States, members of Congress, and people of the public spout the most ridiculous claims, and then either hop on the band wagon, or deny entirely the things that were said. Think about that. Imagine being on a ship that is sinking, with thousands of guests on board, watching it sink, and the captain and crew are saying “Nope…it’s all good! Go back to your cabin, you’ll be fine.”
I was in my early 20s when I first started watching the news and paying attention to what was being said. I became fans of people like George Will, and William F. Buckley who espoused conservative ideas that really made sense to me. These were, and for Will, still are, ideas based in fact and reality. I didn’t, and don’t, always agree with them, but I could respect where they were coming from, and if you provided them with new information, they were and are capable of changing their point of view.
Not today’s conservative! To be a conservative today you have to deny that the earth is round, poison kills, conservatives lie, and believe that, radio, eyewitness, notarized, and gold-plated evidence is nothing but fake news. As long as it is the guy on your team that’s making shit up, you’re good with it. However, let that be the other team then we should just hang him. Hell…the other team doesn’t even have to be lying. They just have to be stating a fact that is contrary to your doctrine, and you seem to have the right to disavow, dishonor, and many cases murder him. Spanish Inquisition anyone?
Take the example of Fox New’s Stuart Varney. This guy actually went on TV the other day and stated that he doesn’t believe the President ever lies. Really!?! Never? He never, ever lies? Even though we have all watched him lie? According to the WashingtonPost, Trump has lied more than 12,000 times in less than 1000 days. Seriously…Fox…you know we have video recordings now. We can actually review what he says and compare it to…you know…facts? We can also review when he says one thing, denies that he says it, and then says it again, denies it again, and then says something else. It’s called TECHNOLOGY!
I really don’t know what’s going to happen to this country in the next few years. However, I do know that I’m considering Canada and Mexico as options when the shit hits the fan. At some point the wackadoodles on both sides are going to come to a head, and the end result is going to be bloody. I’d just as soon not be a part of that. Am I a coward? No. I just don’t want to be in a situation where I’m fighting an idiot for no other reason than they’re an idiot. That just seems a ridiculous reason to sacrifice my life, and when it gets to that point, that’s when there’s nothing worth fighting for.
Rex