I am certainly not suggesting that “conservatives” are beyond manipulating the truth in defense of their actions. But that those on the Left who claim to occupy the moral high ground relentlessly reveal themselves to be liars and hypocrites, would seem to validate the “conservative” Principle that truly Democratic Governments, while upholding the Rule of Law, have no right to tell their citizens how to live their lives. It is a rational, post-Enlightenment concept based on the notion that all people are by definition fallible both in their behavior and the values they espouse. It is the concept informing Freedom of Speech and Conscience which until recently were considered integral to every healthy Democracy. In this era of Leftist Fascism however, it has been replaced by the proposition that “progressives” devoted to the superficial value of Inclusiveness have every right to impose their world-view by force, those citizens who disagree with them being, to use Hillary’s word, “deplorables.” The absurd irony of this perspective is that it is inherently anti-Democratic, the will of dissenting people smugly attributed by the Left to the scourge of Populism, a moral/intellectual cancer afflicting anyone who doesn’t share its sacred vision. As luck would have it, Dave Rubin today shared a video of a devout Democrat claiming that the 74 million who voted for Donald Trump were “evil” and a threat to everything decent Americans hold dear. Rubin was outraged! Yes, there are racists and sexists amongst the masses, though the vast majority of them are decent people of common sense. But that our so-called Political Elites are in any way immune to the flaws that plague the rest of the species, is a lie made evident day after day after depressing day!
As reported by The Blaze on Oct. 13, a Fox News interview conducted two days earlier saw former CIA officer David Priess declare that he did not regret signing a letter, along with several other “intelligence” agents, which declared a N.Y. Post article indicting Hunter Biden and his father just weeks before the 2020 election, was rife with “Russian disinformation.” As subsequently acknowledged by the N.Y. Times, among others, the Post’s article on Hunter’s incriminating laptop was in fact true, his business dealings in both China and the Ukraine suggesting his father, as Vice President, had used his influence to earn the family millions of significantly tainted dollars. Trump-hating Priess, however, defended himself and his fellow agents with the argument that the letter they had signed did not state categorically that the Post article was a lie, but had simply suggested it had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation. Moreover, he said, it had not likely had a significant affect on the outcome of the ensuing election. His Fox interviewer, Bret Baier, was incredulous, clearly feeling the letter was inexcusably speculative and politically motivated, while obviously designed to assure a Biden victory in 2020.
Contemporary Western culture, led by our “intellectuals” and its media minions, has become so “systemically” Leftist, so one-sided in its perspective, that millions who know nothing of history and refuse to think for themselves, have come to accepts its “inclusive” agenda as religious dogma. What this means is that while Populism is constantly maligned by references to extremists who have little in common with mainstream “conservatism,” the vast majority of “liberals” are in fact extremists given to a level of irrationality that is truly preposterous. If Bigotry entails the belief that no point of view other than one’s own is worthy of expression, the vast majority of today’s “liberals” are in fact Bigots! Theirs is a state of mind implicit with the right to lie and obfuscate at every turn on behalf of their sacred cause. It is what Dave Rubin identified as the fundamental disease afflicting all authoritarians!
Hence the sleazy attempt by the hypocritical David Priess to claim that a letter presented to the American public by members of the “intelligence” community, which is supposed to remain above politics, didn’t actually deny the legitimacy of the N.Y. Post article indicting the Bidens, though it repeatedly suggested it reeked of Russian disinformation. Hence the eagerness with which Twitter and Facebook, both of a Leftist bias, banned any discussion of Hunter’s laptop from their sites as the 2020 election approached. And they all claimed they had acted on behalf of the Truth, that their actions had nothing to do with political bias, and that Donald Trump was in fact the main contemporary threat to America’s Democracy!
If you regularly expose yourself to the mainstream organs of Leftist propaganda, you are perhaps immune to the hypocrisy and double-speak customarily evident there. Or perhaps you are among that huge percentage of Americans who say they no longer trust the media whatsoever!