Calling the Opposition Media and the left dishonest these days is as much a cliché as saying the sun is hot. Their collective dishonesty is simply a fact.
Facts are no longer the building block of a story.
Facts are only useful if they fit a predetermined narrative advancing the left's goals of the left.
Not narrative–worthy, means it’s not really a fact.
When Germany was just on the cusp of becoming Hitler’s Germany, the Nazis needed an event that would fit their narrative.
That narrative was the near future was so threatening Hitler needed extraordinary power to save the nation.
Rather than wait, the Nazi’s created their own event and arranged for the burning the seat of the lower house of the legislature.
The resultant Reichstag Fire of Feb. 27, 1933 paved the way for Hitler to assume absolute power in his adopted country.
The situation here in the United States last year was different.
The left was out of power and needed an issue that would make Donald Trump vulnerable in November. Then came a virus which blew up into a pandemic.
Thus, the OpMedia and Democrats turned a virus that was 99.8% survivable into the
"Reichstag flu."
What followed was an unrelenting drumbeat from the left accusing Trump of everything except leaving the freezer door open in Wuhan, allowing coronavirus to escape, and make it's way to America.
The dishonesty and distortion was breathtaking even for a political party that had long ago discarded everything except an urge for power.
Once Trump lost it was obvious that the left was going to be a collective sore winner.
Revenge and punishment were definitely on the agenda.
Only a pretext was needed.
Then Trump himself gave the left the Reichstag Riot where a few hundred of his rowdy, angry and violent followers breached the grounds of the Capitol and invaded the building.
The leftists in charge of our government have used that one-and-done riot as a pretext for what looks like a permanent crackdown on conservatives.
As this is written thousands of National Guard troops are still garrisoned in Washington, D.C. and hastily built razor-wire fencing is keeping ordinary citizens away from the buildings and officeholders their tax dollars have made and continue to make possible.
If we recall correctly, the USA went to Iraq to bring democracy to an authoritarian country.
What appears to have happened instead is the authoritarianism have been brought back to America. A Pentagon spokesman estimates the cost of keeping troops in the armed camp that is D.C. approaches half-a-billion-dollars.
There is no threat to the Capitol that could not be thwarted by using the thousands of law enforcement officers that are already there.
The troop’s job is to send a message to Trump voters.
And the message is the left is in charge now.
If they can turn Washington, D.C. into an Iraq-ike Green Zone without any pushback from our country club conservatives, just think of what they can do to individual Trump voters.
We are entering a very perilous time.
When our elite rulers believe they can run roughshod over 74-million people without any consequences, the fundamental rules governing the United STates of America have changed drastically.
Our elites may learn that if they can abandon the rules, others can, too.
Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Reagan, is a Newsmax TV analyst. A syndicated columnist and author, he chairs The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Michael is an in-demand speaker with Premiere speaker’s bureau. Read Michael Reagan's Reports — More Here.
Michael R. Shannon is a commentator, researcher for the League of American Voters, and an award-winning political and advertising consultant with nationwide and international experience. He is author of "Conservative Christian’s Guidebook for Living in Secular Times (Now with addedhumor!)" Read Michael Shannon's Reports — More Here.