Just Heard about Gov. Huckabee’s new book: “The Three C’s That Made America Great: Christianity, Capitalism, and The Constitution.”
Love the name. The only thing that angers me is that I didn’t think of it first. I have not yet read the book. It is not yet in my budget. However, the truth of the matter is… the title speaks volumes.
Way to go Mr. Huckabee. I hope it is a big success. I hope it really makes the liberals angry. Well, it would be nice if it converts a few too.
In “Control 1” I wrote about the number 1 way that tyrants can control a people, denying education even to the point of keeping people illiterate.
Today, I would want to go into the second way of controlling the masses, propaganda. In Germany, Russia and China, the communists used propaganda heavily.
If I am going to write about it, maybe I should make sure you know what it is. Technically, propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
I might emphasize at this point that propaganda is not necessarily lies. Indeed, the best propaganda contains elements of truth. In fact it might not even contain any lies at all. It makes it more believable. The way it works is by leaving out key information.
If we say that John Doe is a horrible man because he cuts people open, it sounds like a reasonable statement. What we are not told is that the man is a highly skilled heart surgeon.
We believe the deceit that he is a horrible man because of the little bit of truth we are told. If we do not give him an opportunity to defend himself, we might actually be in favor of putting him on death row, especially if he admitted to cutting people open.
For decades Pravda was the paper of record in the USSR. Nothing was printed in it without the approval of the government. People who wrote for the paper were specialists in propaganda. They worded their stories so as to make the USSR sound like a grand and glorious nation. Ironically, it did contain some useful information if you could figure out how to parse through the propaganda and find the little bits of truth embedded in it.
However, as I said in an earlier post, the main difference between Pravda and The New York Times is that Pravda was controlled by the government. The New York Times is controlled by the democrats. In many cases the democrats are communists, so it amounts to about the same thing.
Most papers these days are a mere shadow of past journalism. Many journalists risked life and limb to print the truth. Nowadays the so-called journalists risk life and limb to keep the truth out of the papers. What little truth they do print is to convince us of the propaganda.
Let’s take that Atlantic rag that said the president said horrible things about the marines who fought in Bellow Woods. They took a well known fact, that he canceled the memorial trip and then they weaved a few lies into it. They cite autonomous sources (for all we know they are all fictitious. we have no way of knowing.) and then they expect us to believe it.
To some degree it works. Some people want to believe it. It doesn’t matter. The story is referenced by dozens of papers radio and TV personalities. Suddenly it is true, whether or not it is.
The fact is that it really isn’t even a good example of propaganda. It isn’t believable. Any rank amateur could tear apart the story in seconds. Moreover, President Trump was able to produce dozens of sources, real people with real names that called it out for what it was, a blatant lie. Regardless, it did do some damage. It will have to be dealt with by the president’s campaign.
In my own personal opinion, the newspaper did more damage to themselves than to the president. Anyone with a brain in their head will forever doubt anything printed by the paper. Unless it is artificially propped up, it will likely fade away.
Nonetheless, it does demonstrate propaganda and its uses. It also demonstrates why people citing anonymous sources should never be believed. Once I see or hear the word, anonymous, I stop reading or listening. In my mind it would be dumb to continue.
Then again, the democrats are dumb. They continue to read the articles and they quote them as great truths. It is why I call them dummycrats. It is why they are being successfully controlled by the controllers.
I noticed that California is suffering extended brownout and even blackouts. I spent a few minutes thinking about it and I’ve come up with a perfect solution.
You put one man at the main power switch for the governor and each of the state assembly members. Then, whenever there is a power reduction that lasts longer than 2 minutes, you turn off the power for all those houses. Of course, you make sure that there is no emergency power for any them other than for communications.
I figure that there just might be another power outage, possibly two. I can’t imagine there would ever be a third.
One thing I learned a long time ago. A little motivation goes a long way. When the governor experiences things first hand, he will quickly look at things from another perspective. He will have a new empathy for those suffering as all the rest. It is also possible that his staff will threaten to quit. He might actually have to go to a restaurant to eat or fix his own. If that happens, he just might start opening up the restaurants.
It is the characteristic of those who like communism. They believe that the leaders need not suffer the problems of the masses. It is that “Let them eat cake mentality.”
By the way, it is also what is in store for the rest of the country if Biden is elected. It is called a national nightmare.
I don’t know how many are aware of it, but during the days before the Civil War, teaching an African American how to read and write was against the law throughout the south. When I was a young man, it was common knowledge. The way they teach history these days, it might not be so well known.
The reason was quite simple. If a man knows how to read and write, it is more difficult to control him. To extend the concept, by controlling education they can control people.
It was also the way that the Catholic Church controlled most of the people of Europe. From the time Rome fell until the invention of the printing press, those who ran the church claimed that it was wrong for the common man to read the Bible. It was to be done only by the clergy and then they would teach the people.
After the printing press, common people started reading the Bible. Almost immediately, the people discovered that there was no mention of purgatory in the Bible; it was made up. Also, they realized it wasn’t the only lie of the Catholic leadership.
I could almost write a book on this subject, alone but that is not my purpose here. The point is, those in the leadership of the church were intentionally leading the common people astray for power and gold. Give us your money and we will pray your parents and grandparents out of purgatory. It worked. It didn’t help the relatives but it made the church rich. If you doubt me, have a look at some of those cathedrals in Europe.
With this in mind, consider why the democrats refuse allow school choice. It is their method limiting the education of the masses, especially the African-American populace. The rich go to good schools while the rest make do with the public school system.
In spite of the fact that American schools are the most greatly financed, the students of those schools rate 20 in worldwide standings.
Let’s change things, especially for the Black populace. Why not, for a few years anyway, pay to put 5% poor African-American students into private schools and look at the results. Then again, maybe the democrats would not like to see the results. It would expose the public schools for what they are, a method to maintain their control over the people, especially the African-Americans.
After a brief look over the Web, I think most agree with me that Maximo Alvarez had the best speech so far during the Republican convention. He said he saw it all before. He knew the pattern. To be sure, he spoke many of the same words I did, but he spoke from first hand experience. He fought back tears as he saw the history being repeated.
It is proper to make sure that your realize that his parents escaped Spain during the civil war there. Then he escaped Fidel Castro’s Cuba. He said he saw people around him suffer and die before he left the island nation. At the end of his speech he said, “There is nowhere left to go.”
Now, may I add my words?
I have seen people become indignant because we dare to call Biden a communism. Well, when he speaks the words of a communist, in my book, that makes him a communist.
New York tried socialism and it didn’t work. California is trying socialism and it isn’t work. At one time both states had massive successful economies. By the day, their economies are crumbling. The worst part is that they aren’t satisfied with that. They expect to force their communism on us all while expecting us to bail them out.
They cannot manage their forests, so now, the California governor begs us for money to help them fight their fires. Because New York could not manage their medical supplies, the governor begged for money and supplies from the rest of us. Then he blames the president for the problem that came from a communist country. Tell me that makes sense.
If you want to know what the soviet union of the United States would look like, look at what New York looks like now. People are leaving the state in bunches. New York used to be the most populace state. Now, it follows California and Florida. If things continue, they could end up with less people than Mississippi.
Then as Maximo Alvarez said, where do we go when all the states resemble New York. What do we do when the US resembles China or Russia. What do we do when we go to the store and can’t find a loaf of bread? What do we do when there is no gasoline at the stations? What happens when they turn off the electricity as they do in California?
Right now, it only happens in other countries. Right now, it only happens in other states. What do you do you do when it happens here? What do we do? Where do we go?
We all make mistakes, small and great. Most of our mistakes we can recover from. Letting Biden and his friends take over would be a major mistake that we would never recover from–ever.
The more we become like others, the less we will be like us. And, at one time we were pretty good.
One of the things I noticed over the years is that people in the Soviet block would do just about anything to get into the United States. In fact, there were some who were desperate to do anything, period.
Many risked their lives to get from Cuba to the US. Indeed, many did die before reaching our shores and given the choice, they might do it again.
There must be a reason. There must be something here that they could not get in Russia.
Now of all things, there are people here who want to change the United States into something resembling the Soviet Union. Try figuring that one out.
As for me, it’s simple. Those folks wanting a socialist republic of the United States are simply mixed up. They haven’t got their heads on straight. I figure about four or five years living in China, as the Chinese do, just might help them understand what freedom is. Indeed, if they were to move to Cuba permanently, they just might start thinking of a way to make a seaworthy raft.
The US is a far cry from perfect. I will be one of the first to admit that. But the reason people want in here is that it is by far the best anyone has come up with.
For decades, the US was the example that the other nations tried to follow. Is it now smart for us to follow their example so that we would regress to what they are?
Sorry, but every time I hear the statement that we are the only country that does not have socialized health care, it makes me sick. What is it that they have that we don’t? Until Pelosi and those dummycrats started muddling with our health care system, we had the best health care in the world. Everyone came here to our doctors and our hospitals. Now, not so much.
Before the dummycrats and the unions we had the world’s most productive country in the world. Today, not so much. Everyone seems to want to go to China to have things made while our labor sets with their hands out wanting food stamps and other government assistants. And, of course, the dummycrats are in favor of strengthening the unions and their crooked leaders.
The more we become like others, the less we will be like us. And, at one time we were pretty good.
Near as I can tell, there is but one thing the democrats like to export:
Jobs!
One day a man starts out from one of the small airfields on the island of Santa Catalina off the coast of California. He starts flying west and hopes to find an airfield soon. In this case, his best hopes are to end up wet. There are no airfields west of Catalina in the range of a Cessna single engine prop.
A woman in Saint Louis boards a south-bound train in hopes of going to Chicago. Eventually, the only place her hopes will get her is New Orleans. Then again, maybe that was where she hoped to go. Many folks prefer New Orleans to Chicago. In general, the weather is better.
Neither of the above stories is true. However, people get turned around all the time. One afternoon, when I pulled out of a Sonic restaurant, I thought I turned west. I hoped, shortly, I would approach my home.
Needless to say, hope didn’t do me any good. On the other hand, when I stood outside my car and saw that the sun was behind me, I realized my error. Strange thing, though I was going east, I was absolutely convinced I was going west.
For me, the problem was doubled. I was getting low on gas and I didn’t see a hope of a gas station anywhere. At least I saw the error and drove north where I would likely find a gas station, which I did after about five miles.
The thing is, democrats like to talk a lot about hope. The problem is that they do this while all the time leading the country in the wrong direction.
It’s just not safe when you put your hope in people who don’t know what to do or how to do it. The fact is that most democrat politicians have never run company. The never met a payroll. In many cases, they never held down a real job.
Obama was a neighborhood organizer. Biden has always been a politician. Before getting into politics, Kamala Harris was a lawyer and, from what I understand, not a very good one. Some would go so far to say she wasn’t very honest either. Are these the leaders on whom we want to place our hope?
One more thing about hope, which is even more important. There are many who hope they will go to heaven who won’t. Satan has sold them a bill of goods. What he offers is a counterfeit faith. It is logical that if he hopes to fool people, he needs to make the counterfeit look very much like the real thing.
I would suggest, that you make sure you have the real thing, not the counterfeit. Hell is a horrible place and forever is a long time. It is a place without hope, ever.
I just heard that some democrats are considering removing the phrase “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Now that surprises me. My guess is that they would want to remove the pledge altogether. After all, they do believe in globalism and they do believe in open borders. With those beliefs, why have any allegiance to anything but the UN.
If I may paraphrase an old Far side comic, it would appear that John Kasich is out standing in his field or so he would have us think.
It is a shame that he has turned out the way he is. I used to have a great deal of respect for the man, until he ran for president. Then he became very angry because candidate Trump beat him badly.
The truth of the matter is that Donald Trump beat him fair and square. He said that he would build a fence on our southern border. Kasich said he would do the same thing everyone else did, nothing.
The fact is that there were but two candidates that said anything at all about stemming the flow of illegal aliens across the border. As it turned out, when all the rest fell by the wayside, there were but two left. Both wanted to stop the flow of illegal aliens. They were the only two who did.
The flat out truth is that the Republicans never presented a better candidate. They, all of them, have nothing to blame but themselves. Donald Trump saw what the people wanted. He knew what needed to be done to improve things. Then that was what he promised. Then, unlike the others, he actually carried through with the promises, this ever though there were some in his own party who fought him.
What Kasich must realize is that when you don’t want the things the voters want, you stand a good chance of losing, and he did. Not only did he lose but he lost badly. Apparently, he didn’t get the message.
Now, instead of learning, he has become a belligerent never-Trumper. As I said, he has become a disappointment. He did look like a good Republican. Now, he seems to be another one of those guys who tries to please everyone. So he stands out in the field, at a crossroad like the scarecrow in “The Wizard of Oz” pretending that all roads lead to the great Oz.
Only the road is not made of gold bricks and none of them lead to the land of Oz. He prefers the likes of Biden over President Trump and that says a lot about him, all bad.
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