With the obviousness of Benghazi now being rendered so obvious that even benighted liberal diehards are paying attention, it's good to remember that, bad as it was, the real scandal here is not so much that the Obama administration lied about the terrorist attack in order to protect their reelection bid and help Hillary out viz 2016 - politicians lie, that's not news - what is and was news, as in disturbingly revelatory, is that the media and press went along with the lie, enabled it, nurtured it, fleshed out its narrative in order either to directly impact the election in favor of their chosen candidate or because they were so blinded by ideological adoration for their chosen candidate that they managed to convince themselves that indeed there was nothin' to see here so just move along.
You cannot have a proper democracy if the opinion generating apparatus of that democracy is deliberately lying or enabling lies in order to protect and promote a favoured ideology and candidate - that's a knife right to the very heart of what democracy means - and your democracy will not survive it if the offence isn't corrected or resists correction because the knife is just too deep - which is what I fear is the truth. You see, if the media got it wrong in a deliberate effort to protect Obama, then possibly that can be fixed - there's maybe enough decent people left out there I think who are right now shaking the clouds from their eyes and realizing 'ya know, we really fucked up here, we really allowed this whole Obama thing to spin out of control' - and if that's the case I do think a correction is possible. But if Benghazi played out the way it did because the media was/is so utterly blinded by ideological lust for what Obama represents to them that they could not tell an obvious lie from truth - then that's trouble, that's big trouble and these people are probably just too far gone for correction - and where that leaves the country I have no idea - not a good place one imagines.
Between how a flawed and broken immigration system is skewing election results in an unhealthy way, the GOP's possible inability to effectively address this problem because either they lack the internal wherewithals to effectively address it or because the damage is done and Democrats and their media allies are never gonna allow the damage to be undone since it serves their purposes so well - between those two things and that media's demonstrated willingness to distort truth in order to serve progressive agendas and how that feeds, enables the general liberal urge towards orthodoxy, conformity of thought and ultimately autocracy - well, if those three things stay constant ya can really start to see how the road ahead could get quite unpleasant.
I know progressives imagine that a liberal ascendancy resulting in a domination on the national level of the political process will lead to all kinds of wonderful things - but that's not how it will play out, no way - I mean, these people are progressives because they're delusional, drunk on the fumes of their wild musings - and so what they think that future will be like and what it will actually be like will of course prove quite different things - and we're seeing signs of this spring up in Europe where right wing forces are rising up in opposition to that great progressive autocracy called the EU - and it's decidedly in the nature of the conflict that extremism on both sides will be the result - that's what happens when democracy starts to fall apart because you see the whole point of democracy is to mitigate extremes by promoting and defending freedoms - and there's no greater freedom in a democracy than the right to hold an opinion and have that opinion heard - which brings us right back to media bias and why it is such a dangerous thing - and back to why Benghazi was and is a big deal.
You cannot have a proper democracy if the opinion generating apparatus of that democracy is deliberately lying or enabling lies in order to protect and promote a favoured ideology and candidate - that's a knife right to the very heart of what democracy means - and your democracy will not survive it if the offence isn't corrected or resists correction because the knife is just too deep - which is what I fear is the truth. You see, if the media got it wrong in a deliberate effort to protect Obama, then possibly that can be fixed - there's maybe enough decent people left out there I think who are right now shaking the clouds from their eyes and realizing 'ya know, we really fucked up here, we really allowed this whole Obama thing to spin out of control' - and if that's the case I do think a correction is possible. But if Benghazi played out the way it did because the media was/is so utterly blinded by ideological lust for what Obama represents to them that they could not tell an obvious lie from truth - then that's trouble, that's big trouble and these people are probably just too far gone for correction - and where that leaves the country I have no idea - not a good place one imagines.
Between how a flawed and broken immigration system is skewing election results in an unhealthy way, the GOP's possible inability to effectively address this problem because either they lack the internal wherewithals to effectively address it or because the damage is done and Democrats and their media allies are never gonna allow the damage to be undone since it serves their purposes so well - between those two things and that media's demonstrated willingness to distort truth in order to serve progressive agendas and how that feeds, enables the general liberal urge towards orthodoxy, conformity of thought and ultimately autocracy - well, if those three things stay constant ya can really start to see how the road ahead could get quite unpleasant.
I know progressives imagine that a liberal ascendancy resulting in a domination on the national level of the political process will lead to all kinds of wonderful things - but that's not how it will play out, no way - I mean, these people are progressives because they're delusional, drunk on the fumes of their wild musings - and so what they think that future will be like and what it will actually be like will of course prove quite different things - and we're seeing signs of this spring up in Europe where right wing forces are rising up in opposition to that great progressive autocracy called the EU - and it's decidedly in the nature of the conflict that extremism on both sides will be the result - that's what happens when democracy starts to fall apart because you see the whole point of democracy is to mitigate extremes by promoting and defending freedoms - and there's no greater freedom in a democracy than the right to hold an opinion and have that opinion heard - which brings us right back to media bias and why it is such a dangerous thing - and back to why Benghazi was and is a big deal.
