“Democracy” is a TV program

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https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1870000072529973322

“The fact that the meltdown content footage you see is coming from the view, cnn, msnbc, and unhinged congresspeople afraid of losing their power shows the truth about “democracy”: it’s a television program. A small production with large amplification. An illusion. Now shattered. We’ve now decentralized the monopoly on propaganda. Now we see what actual democracy looks like. Actual representation without forced false narratives from talking heads. The cloud of falsity is being lifted.”

This is speaking to the CR bill that was about to be crammed down our throats before Elon brought light to it.

Wow! Any thoughts?

[Del]

This makes sense. X and the new media have destroyed the Democrat Media Machine.

The powers freaked out when Elon Musk bought Twitter, because we were suddenly able to talk together about what we were being told. For sure, every crazy idea got put out there. But the reality is that popular discussion rapidly coalesced around common sense. Various podcasters and alternative media provided ideas and solid analysis, and the best thoughts went viral.

Donald Trump re-emerged into this environment. He spoke honestly and often. He pivoted when voter feedback did not approve of recent policies or rhetoric. He did long interviews to establish his credibility and his relationship with voters.

Scott Jennings (lonely conservative voice on CNN) said that Donald Trump's superpower is his ability to break the narratives.

The manufacturers of narratives called him racist, a Nazi, a friend to just the wealthy, a guy who wants to ban abortions and oppress L-gibbity-Q's.... BUT THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT STICK. Trump's ability to connect directly with voters was able to break all the narratives. He broke the Democrat Media Machine.

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Source https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1870103769628750196

[Del]

The latest TV-democrat spin is "Elon Musk is really in charge, and he's pulling all of the strings on Donald Trump!"

I mean, seriously.... Several of the Democrat media weekend news shows were trying to make that stick.

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When will the liars ever learn? If there's anything good that comes from social media, it's that it's much more difficult to get away with the lies as long as the liars don't have control of social media. Who is John Galt?

[FredS]

A couple years ago we were watching a Monday Night Football game featuring the Buffalo Bills with some of my grown children. My DIL is from there and is a big Bills fan. Anyway, a Bills player named Damar Hamlin basically died on the field on live tv. The DIL turned to twitter to get up to the second news. Not ESPN, not CNN, but twitter. They get their news via social media now. Of course they have to be critical thinkers and parse through it to find out what's accurate and what's not, but they know how to navigate that stuff way better than us oldsters.

(Damar Hamlin had a long stay in hospital, but eventually recovered and played for the Bills the next season. He's still playing. His death, resuscitation, and coma prompted a few former players and talking heads to publicly pray on broadcast television. I never heard a single critic, and certainly nobody else on the set said "Hey, you can't do that here.")

[FredS]

Also, and I've said this for a few years now, my kids are socially liberal and financially conservative and they're not alone. They like off-color jokes and satire. They don't like woke craziness and 76 genders. They don't like race baiting, or quotas, or cancelling those they disagree with. Thank goodness for CA and Seattle to show them were those wackadoddle policies end up so they and their peers had time to pump the breaks and turn this crazytrain around. Of course my generations way-left policies did very real harm to very real people - killed thousands of them even - but the next gen saw that too, and they want to fix it where they can.

[Del]

Also, and I've said this for a few years now, my kids are socially liberal and financially conservative and they're not alone. They like off-color jokes and satire. They don't like woke craziness and 76 genders. They don't like race baiting, or quotas, or cancelling those they disagree with. Thank goodness for CA and Seattle to show them were those wackadoddle policies end up so they and their peers had time to pump the breaks and turn this crazytrain around. Of course my generations way-left policies did very real harm to very real people - killed thousands of them even - but the next gen saw that too, and they want to fix it where they can.

For starters, I think the Democrat Party and the legacy media would both benefit from a friendly divorce.

The field is open right now for any Democrat who wants to start speaking with common sense. Heck, John Fetterman is already claiming this ground for his own! And Joe Manchin is staking claim. Showing Democrats that it's okay to say, "I'm excited about what Trump and Musk are trying to do to about cutting wasteful spending, especially at the Pentagon. And we just have to get the border under control."

The situation is similar to 1992, when Democrats held an honest open primary. Bill Clinton rose to the top by speaking common sense in a common voice. And then he didn't mess with what was working well, and it was a booming decade for America.

A moderate Dem governor or two have a good shot. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania comes immediately to mind.

[FredS]

I suppose about half the Dems and Dem voters went along just as a counterbalance to the right. That backfired and emboldened the right. It's not hard to spot a goat in a field full of sheep and it wasn't hard for voters to see the left was going waaaaay too far. Trump is a very polarizing man and if the Dems would have fielded (and vetted) a halfway moderate person they could have beat him. The moderate Dems will be coming out of the woodwork to say "I was never really down wit dat progressive stuff anyway." The brave ones like Fetterman first, but others will come around too. They won't regain any serious power for a few years though because they're going to have to prove they've changed their stripes by agreeing with reasonable polices. Not just say it. Live it. If Trump has shown them anything, it's that Americans appreciate honesty. Do what you say you're going to do and folks who agree with you will give you a chance.

[Del]