Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Raúl Ilargi Meijer — Treason? Get A Life!

Yeah, just keep ’em coming, right, so that when the last one falls flat on its face people will have already forgotten about it and instead focus on the new one. It’s been the modus operandi of the US MSM ever since Donald Trump emerged as an actual presidential candidate, and they haven’t let go.

They realize by now that it divides the nation, it costs them a large chunk of their potential readers and viewers, and creates chaos all around, but the bottom line is it makes them money. Because those people who fall into the echo chamber trap, tumble into it fast and furious, and will gladly pay to read yet another installment of how bad the man really is.
But it is getting out of hand, guys and gals, it is becoming a real and present danger to the -formerly- United States. The anti-Russia propaganda machine far predates Trump, but manufacturing an ever closer link between the two has proven to be a masterstroke of media genius.

That Vladimir Putin is an existential threat to the US and indeed the entire western world is a narrative taken straight out of Edward Bernays’ playbook. And it works like a charm. The problem is, it is also the biggest threat to peace anywhere on the globe that we have ever seen since WWII....
See, the idea is that you get yourself informed and then form your own opinion. Not that you let others pre-cook and pre-chew your opinions for you. Still, once you’re inside the deafening echo chamber, that’s what inevitably happens. Because there’s so much one-sided innuendo in there, your head aches and you just give up all resistance. Just to have a quiet moment.
And so very many Americans end up believing that indeed their president is guilty of treason. Because so many pundits claim that he is. But how many of them understand what treason really is, how serious an allegation it is? Is doesn’t really matter anymore, does it? Because all those others say he is, and they can’t all be wrong. And the echo chamber gives you a headache.

This is where I should say that somebody better do something about this, but it’s hard to see what. The divide has grown into a chasm. And that both sides are equally to blame for that doesn’t excuse either side’s wilful blindness. But yes, I hear you, it makes them money.

Still, if a US president can no longer talk to another president without being accused of treason, you’re in a scary predicament.
The Automatic Earth
Treason? Get A Life!
Raúl Ilargi Meijer

5 comments:

Konrad said...

Well said. Thanks Tom for posting this.

Jonathan Larson said...

So Trump gets up and tells the unvarnished truth about the security agencies. Supposedly, he is this huge liar but the real howls begin when he tells the truth, which he does surprisingly often.

And his base just eats it up. When I was in college, the "left" was very suspicious of the security apparat, now they cheer them on. It's the Trump people who want better relations with our so-called enemies, think we spend too much on militarism, and want a more balanced trade scheme.

But man, has he made some powerful enemies. And now they're howling treason.

Tom Hickey said...

But man, has he made some powerful enemies. And now they're howling treason.

Right. If DJT doesn't have the goods on them, he has to convince them he has.

However, even if he doesn't have the evidence yet, I suspect he knows enough to bluff as strongly as they have been doing about him.

This is a classic pissing match on a very high level.

No other reality show can come close. Trump even has the trophy wife to show off.

Noah Way said...

Meanwhile real treason is demonstrated daily and the perpetrators are protected. HRC selling access while Sec. Of State, officials taking legalized bribes, waging war for profit, arming and funding terror groups as proxy armies, using positions of power for personal enrichment, etc., etc., etc.

Tom Hickey said...

The $ corruption is bad, but the moral corruption is several orders of magnitude worse.