Joe Doakes from Como park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a massive effort by the Lesko Brandon administration to paint the situation in Ukraine as black-and-white, endlessly trumpeted in the mainstream media and vigorously enforced by suppressing opposing viewpoints on social media (while selectively suspending their own rules against ‘violence’ to promote ‘Kill Putin’ posts). There’s never a measured analysis, a weighing of costs versus benefits, an explanation of Why and How which rational minds could use to decide Why Not and How Not.
I reminds me of the massive effort by the Democrats to paint the Afghan retreat as black-and-white; the vaccine situation as black-and-white; the Covid virus as black-and-white; St. George of Fentanyl as black-and-white (okay, that one actually was black-and-white, but not in the way I mean). Every Democrat disaster is a morality play with Democrats as Good and everyone else as Evil and no middle ground for compromise.
But real life is rarely black-and-white. Eventually, the truth leaks out. There is significant evidence Covid was simply a bad flu made deadly not but nature, but by the political response. There is significant evidence the election was not fortified against being stolen, it was stolen and the evidence fortified against being found. There is significant evidence the vaccine is not without risk, Ukraine is not without fault, the Afghan bug-out was not without consequence. Eventually, people figure out they’ve been lied to, by politicians of course (which we expect) but also by media talking heads (which we expect on THOSE channels but not on ours) and even by our own doctors (which we did not expect at all).
So why do they do it?
Do they seriously think we’re going to believe the price of gas is due to Putin’s acts in February, when the price of gas has been going up for months?
Do they seriously think we’re going to believe more dollars chasing fewer goods hasn’t caused inflation, when we’ve been seeing grocery prices rise all year?
Do they seriously think we’re going to believe de-funding the police had nothing to do with rampaging carjackers and record-breaking shootings?
How stupid do they think we are?
Joe Doakes
<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAs I\u2019ve been maintaining for years: it\u2019s not how stupid they think we are, it\u2019s how stupid they are counting on us being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: There is a massive effort by the Lesko Brandon administration to paint the situation in Ukraine as black-and-white, endlessly trumpeted in the mainstream media and vigorously enforced by suppressing opposing viewpoints on social media (while selectively suspending their own rules against ‘violence’ to promote ‘Kill Putin’ posts). There’s never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81193,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81190\/revisions\/81193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}