Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam’s Razor,
from local artist S.C. Watson.
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The power of media brainwashing is truly apparent. Aren’t these the latest Media Matters talking points?
Glad I’m not a Republican.
Oh, the desperation is palpable. Time’s up.
Sources:
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-02-24/a-quarter-of-republicans-believe-central-views-of-qanon-conspiracy-movement
https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/11/04/new-uc-davis-report-shows-maga-republicans-more-likely-to-endorse-political-violence/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-rejoice-democrats-rage-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-definition-woman-b2051323.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/concerns-grow-over-the-increasing-ties-between-christianity-and-right-wing-nationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/truth-about-election-fraud-its-rare/
I’m feeling blue. Fear mongering, demonization, misinformation, its axiomatic the dem’s always accuse Republicans of using their tactics:
Co-opted by silly cone valley oligarchs and the military industrial complex. Where are the dem’s hundreds of millions coming from?
Political Violence? 574 metropolitan riots in 2020 by dem’s antifa militias, dozens died, thousands of police injured, billions in property damage in democrat Jenny Durkin’s “summer of love”. Jay Inslee, “I’m not aware of it”
Conspiracy theories: Hunter Biden Laptop implicating who in the graft and corruption, Trump / Russia collusion, Ukrainian Quid Pro Quo.
Election Deniers, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Stacy Abrams, Auntie Maxine
Respect for women/ who let the boy’s into the girl’s locker room and the women’s sports
And you use state security forces (FBI) to attack an intimidate those who exercise rights you take for granted.
Yes! Our Democracy is in grave peril – from the Marxist ideologues who’ve taken over the party of FDR and JFK.
Citing excerpts from Tass, Isvestia and Pravda offer no tangible information
Red Tide Rising!
Oh, and https://mobile.twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1588963291388579840
Phil, I LOVED your last line: “Red Tide Rising.” Isn’t red tide toxic?
Occam stated an accurate list of a number of the problems we have right now.
Unfortunately he made one smallmistake. He accurately described the Democrat party not the Republicans.
I suggest he stay with local issues – he’s totally out of touch with reality.
Touche Ms. Houage, but the question is toxic to what? Toxicity to external threats may not be a bad thing.
Curiously if we go back before 1996, we find that Republicans were blue and democrats red, but the mainstream media inexplicably changed that in the next cycle, perhaps the former alignment was too close to their unspoken goal. I’m still amused when teachers go on strike and wear their precious red tee shirts.
Mr. Waunch appears to have taken the point. We all seem to share similar anxieties but see them through different prisms. Then we cherry pick “facts” to support our view while marginalizing the “others” which serves neither individual, local or national interests. In our collective past, TOLERANCE was a paramount civic virtue. Apparently now political positioning is all that matters, “the end justifies the means” a sad obituary for mankind’s greatest experiment.
As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is s”