Having just read my umpteenth post
about the undeniable evil of the Clintons it occurs to me that we now have an
entire generation of children that have grown to adulthood, raised within an
environment where things are viewed through a filter of distrust. Conspiracy
theories are endemic. A generation raised not to trust: government, law
enforcement, the courts, media, specific groups of people like those who have
education and those who don’t think like them. Agents of the New World Order
are everywhere. The UN is trying to take over America. Black helicopters with
men dressed in black prowl the skies. Being armed is encouraged in order to
fight back when the agents come for you. What’s more those who don’t buy into
all the paranoia are to be ridiculed. Stay away from those people, you don’t
need that kind of liberal negativity in your life.
There is the actual history of events
supported by reality as opposed to a contrived history not supported by the
facts. Where does all this alternate faux history and education come from?
Well, that got me to thinking about
Madrasas.
Throughout the Middle East there
are schools called Madrasas or Madrassas. Madrasa is the Arabic word for any
type of educational institution, whether secular or religious. Some of these
schools have come under criticism for teaching a radical form of Islam to
children just as we have Christian schools that teach extreme views of the
faith.
These Madrasas are physical locations but
these days thanks to modern technology the internet has become an educational
institution accessible to anyone with access. (I’m happy, yet sad.) The
internet gave a larger voice and reach to the Alt Right movement. You can look
up the definition of what the Alt Right movement is on Google. I almost went
with the definition provided by wiki but decided to go with one from the
Southern Poverty Law Center instead:
The
Alternative Right, commonly known as the Alt-Right, is a set of far-right
ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that “white identity”
is under attack by multicultural forces using “political correctness” and
“social justice” to undermine white people and “their” civilization.
Characterized by heavy use of social media and online memes, Alt-Righters
eschew “establishment” conservatism, skew young, and embrace white
ethno-nationalism as a fundamental value.
Now the above definition is the far
Alt Right. If you’re a holocaust denier you would be with this crowd. If you’re
not a white supremacist or anti-Semitic you would be to the left of this
extreme but still be with the Conservative Alt Right. As example, Brietbart
News is considered a conservative Alt Right news source. Pat Robertson would be
in the Religious Alt Right.
As far as the Alt Left is concerned
I don’t have much in the way of a definition for the Alt Left. The Alt Right
would probably call them liberal cultural Marxists and other more colorful
nouns. (Throw in neo something or other for both of them.) “Christians Tired of
Being Misrepresented” would probably qualify as being religious Alt Left as
well as…well…The Christian Left.
In essence the faux history is
coming from literally hundreds of Alt Right sites. They started pumping this
stuff out through email at the very beginning. As the internet and social media
evolved so did the Alt Right. They are exceptional at dis-information.
Seriously! I am impressed. They have videos and books as well.
In the beginning I would spend
hours checking and tracking all the various accusations passed along to me from
these sources. They always ended with the same result: Not factually truthful.
I don’t bother doing it any more.
I have friends, or at least used
to, of all kinds of political persuasions. From the very beginning years ago
the Alt Right stuff poured in starting with email. VCR tapes and books were
passed around as well. The Anarchists Cookbook was also popular. That’s kind of
ironical. I have received more racist stuff and seen more racist postings in
the last 8 years than I have seen in my entire life. What do I mean by racist?
A picture of our First Lady morphing into a monkey eating a banana is the type
of racist crap that I’m talking about. I have not received this kind of
material from my liberal friends.
Here's an example of how people can
be duped: there was a family member that was drawn into the “Y2K bug
civilization will collapse theory*.” We would receive books, email, VCR tapes
and all sorts of references to alternative sources of information provided by
those with “inside” information. They became a survivalist, moved, acquired
guns, lots of ammunition, survival equipment and provisions enough to make it
through the breakdown of society. No, you didn’t miss it. It didn’t happen in
spite of all the “information” from trusted alternative news sources that said
it would.
What we see now with the Alt Right
is a continuation of the same methodology. In other words they just make stuff
up with information that doesn’t exist mixed in with real life events. Get
people that are already pre-disposed to believing the worst or having a
predetermined expectation of what to expect and you have an audience of
believers. They will not only drink the Kool Aid they will ask for more and
pass it around. It is poison. They are poisoning minds and society.
Then the leadership of the
Republican Party started pushing the same narrative because it served their
political agenda. Their agenda was to blame President Obama for everything and
not to pass any legislation he proposed no matter how beneficial it was to
American citizens. This played right to the Alt Right's hands. Liberals are
liars. Democrats are liars. Media lies. They were the truth tellers; the
champions of the Constitution. Then they turned on the Republican leadership.
It turns out that they couldn’t be trusted either—especially if they had
principles and put the country before the party.
So, no, I don’t need to watch any
more videos about how the Clintons are a part of Murder Inc., Bill Clinton’s
love child, Obama is not a natural born citizen, or the endless stream of crap
that has been debunked over and over again. To the true believers nothing will
ever change their minds. If you see this stuff like “This will end Hillary
Clinton’s campaign, The secret video Hillary doesn’t want you to see, etc.” and
the link is to some real patriotic sounding name, web site or social media page
that you’ve never heard of save yourself some time. If it sounds outrageous
don’t bother with it. The problem is that with Trump outrageous is going
mainstream.
The Alt Right has to make Hillary
Rodham Clinton evil in order to make her one of the lesser of two evil choices.
I will state again that I don’t believe either of them is evil. However on the
worst day of her life she is more qualified than Donald Trump on the best day
of his life.
Yes there’s evil in the world. We
don’t have to join in. We don’t have to incite people to violence. Believe in our system of government. Believe
that all the major news organizations are trying to do their jobs. Believe in
our legal system though fallible we keep working on it. Believe in normal.
Believe that not everyone is out to get you. Take a deep breath. It’s going to
be okay.
If you’re a Christian keep in mind
that Jesus was liberal. Jesus believed in the good of people and doing right in
the service of others. That was Jesus’ normal. Be normal.
*From Britannica: Y2K bug, also
called Year 2000 bug or Millennium Bug, a problem in the coding of computerized
systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks
around the world at the beginning of the year 2000 (in metric measurements K
stands for thousand).