Mike Benz, in the State Department under Trump 1.0, summarized the situation for Tucker Carlson. “What I’m essentially describing is military rule…the censorship industry is a total inversion of democracy itself. Democracy draws its legitimacy from the idea that it rules by the consent of the people it rules. But they said, we need to redefine democracy from being about the will of the voters to being about the sanctity of democratic intitutions. And who are democratic institutions? They are NATO, the military, the IMF, the World Bank, the MSM and the NGOs, which are supported by the government. And the elite establishments that were under threat from domestic populism, which declared its own consensus to be the definition of democracy.” In actual fact they are institutions like the Supreme Court.
But a countering force has emerged against the government’s massive PsyWar against the American people. The uncensored mature internet ecosystem has allowed citizen journalists and independent voices to out-compete mainstream state-sponsored news media, which has been controlled for years by the administrative and deep states. Dr. Malone remarks, “It is our independent and citizen journalists who might just set us free.” I read in today’s news that the New York State Education Department refused to bow to Trump’s order on DEI. The Deputy Commissioner wrote Trump a really caustic letter and even quoted the Secretary of Education in Trump’s first term as approving DEI. More and more individuals and institutions are standing up to Trump. Huge crowds are gathering to protest. Trumps approval numbers are falling. Since I live in NYS and worked as a teacher there, I’m very proud of the Education Department.
A man named Edward Bernays wrote the book ‘Propaganda’ in 1928. It would never occur to him that a democratic society could be corrupted by the fourth estate (newspapers then, media now). He thought it was the newpapers’ duty to cover the news in a fair and balanced fashion. I’m in an echo chamber because they all say that-Fox News in particular. His view was that the owner of a newspaper could never be converted to one side of a controversy. The idea that corporations own news outlets would be unthinkable to Bernays.
Today, journalism schools teach “advocacy journalism,” which advocates the adoption of a nonobjective viewpoint, usually to advance a social cause. “We must feed hungry children” didn’t have an opposite until Trump stopped funding USAID. It is clearly propaganda that has become normalized to such an extent that no one remembers the other kind. We must not normalize anything Trump does or says; otherwise he will continue to become even more outrageous. He is not of sound mind-anybody can see that. He exhausts himself trying to cover all the bases. Propaganda is not necessarily evil, but it’s always meant to manipulate the mental state of those receiving it. The distribution of truthful or untruthful information which causes the recipient to become wary or skeptical of the government and its intentions is defined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as “malformation.” Information that may or may not be truthful but differs from the government’s approved narrative at that time is defined by the DHS as “misinformation.” Either malinformation or misinformation which is distributed for a political purpose is defined as “disinformation.” Under the Biden administration, DHS determined that the speading of mis-dis-or mal-information can be considered DOMESTIC TERRORISM.(Malone) It makes me want to move to Canada.
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