Journal antirelic's Journal: Conspiracy, Cooperation, and Coincidence. 3
In my formative years, I was taught that it is important to known the difference between Conspiracy, Cooperation, and Coincidence. Even more important to assign the proper and logical label to any given situation. A lesson that I was never taught, but learned in my latter years; to know when assigning such distinction to a situation is no longer relevant.
There is a struggle at hand in our society. A struggle between two philosophies. On the right, you have the belief in Natural Law, and on the left a belief in a variety of Marxist ideas. Conservative philosophers have been engaged in a perverted game of "tit for tat" with one another. Conservative commentators have been busy digging up as many "facts" about the beliefs of the elected, appointed, and the activists on the Left. In return, the Left has responded with one of three recourses, two being the most frequent; dismissal or laughter (sometimes both). The third recourse being the most humorous is in the instance where the conservative is wrong. They decry the conservative as mean, derisive, and treacherous while avoiding the topic in dissent.
As amusing as that game is, even more so is the accusation of media bias from the right, while in the same token hoping for some miraculous, conversation of said media. As if the continual accusations of media collaboration and collusion with Left wing activists would not force one to assume that they are one and the same... and still they speak in tones of hopeful reconciliation. One may call it Shakespeare, an act to show their desire to go half way, but to the suspect and disheartened, it wreaks of foolishness and poor design.
What good are these games? What have they produced? What advantages have been gained with these silly gestures and posing as the victim? As opposed to drowning out clear, and simple reason with musings of conspiracy, how much more effort could have gone into revealing those things which are so clearly around us? We must assume that those who have already decided will seldom change from external influences, while those who are undecided will either be suspect and difficult to move, or feckless and moved easily by the most palpable argument. In either case, it is irrelevant to categorize the truth, as the truth is all that will persuade the suspect, and secure the easily persuaded.
In 18 months the Socialists in the United States have done, and not done;
- Not repealed the Patriot Act and Patriot Act II.
- Implemented Health Care legislation that, once fully implemented, will cause the current private health care system to become untenable.
- Carbon Dioxide, which all creatures exhale (humans included), declared a poisonous gas, allowing unelected, nameless bureaucrats and political appointees to pass destructive regulation against private industry while providing an obscure barrier shielding elected officials from their actions.
- Coordinated within several states to subvert our Federal system of governance by assigning their states electoral college vote to the national popular vote, even if the popular vote of the state would dictate the electoral college vote in the favor of the state.
- Through Fannie Mae or Freddy Mac underwrote the financial melt down of 2007-2008.
- Repeat Freddie and Fannie, but with college student loans. Melt down to come.
Sticking to the facts, objectively, without exaggeration, will do just fine.
moof (Score:1)
I may have missed the nuance of your meaning here, but taking the second thing first, I think the constant pointing out of media bias has produced the well-deserved level of distrust and disapproval that exists today, that wouldn't otherwise be because the masses aren't skilled/equipped to notice such things on their own, due to a lack of critical thinking skills combined with not being oriented to even look for it.
And I think proof of this victory for the Right is the change in response seen on the Left to
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Oh come on now, be fair. Between the rise of the internet, and the MSM happy to shoot itself in the foot, there's plenty of blame to go around.
if I can no longer be trusted, then I'll make it so that no one can be" tactic
LOL, that's some nifty projection there. Good luck with citations.
They've swung NBC to the hard Left and transformed MSNBC into a caricature of a
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The problem with conspiracies is that they are hard to publicly validate and defend, while presenting easy marks to discredit through minor inaccuracies or over exaggerations. Of course, identifying exaggerations or minor inaccuracies do not invalidate the conspiracy theory in itself, they do one important thing; create doubt. This created doubt is enough to cause many neutral parties to abandon the debate (for whatever reason).
Of course conspiracies do exist, and identifying them is important for investiga