Pravda-USA. Give it consideration. Are there likenesses in the USA to what there was in the Soviet Union back in the days of the Cold War?
Fox is like unto Pravda? All I ask it that you be open-minded enough to consider what I say.
First, I think back a few years, to Utah politics, and of how the Republican party would not allow candidates who did not subscribe to the official line of the party -- requiring them right down the line, issue after issue, to adhere to the party line. At, the time, it reminded me of the Soviet Union, and of how you needed to believe the same as the state party -- no room for a difference of opinion. The party dictated what you must believe. Yes, I respect the thought that ideologies are what parties are all about, but people should be able to take their opinions to the party and persuade others to believe as they do. People should be dictating what the party believes, not the other way around. The party shouldn't dictate what the people believe, and blackball them for having opinions of dissent. There is a way it is done in America, and there is a way it was done in the Soviet Union.
No, the party should not dictate to the people what they believe. They people should dictate to the party. It is done one way in Russia, and another way in the USA.
Tonight, as I watched the lines run across the screen on Fox, I was -- well -- shocked. "Dismiss the madness," it read. The idea being propagandized was that there is no substance to the charges against Trump -- its all trumped up charges against Trump, I guess. If I remember correctly, the Laura Ingraham program regarded the impeachment process as simply an act of hatred by the Democrats.
I was aghast. First, these are not groundless charges. And, second, if they are, then you have a trial, and you prove your point in that trial. If they are groundless, what are you afraid of? Hold a good, honest trial the way America has always done. John Bolton? He is ready to testify? If you want the truth, if you are going to go about a trial the way America and the free world normally does, of course he becomes a witness. Freedom has it no other way. It would be corrupt government, alone, that would block him from testifying.
Pravda-USA? I cannot but reflect on the day Pravda propagandized for the Soviet government. I think back on the day Fox News was launched in 1996, and wonder if we realized it would come to this. We are told not to believe the main media. We are directed to what amounts to the state media. We are told not to even listen to the main media. Lies is all we will get, if we do. I think of the meaning of Pravda -- "the truth" -- and reflect on how it is the same, today, here in the USA today. We are instructed there is no truth in the mainstream media, and that if we want the truth, we have to go to the right-wing sources and block out the rest. Fox News is about as close to a state-ran news source as we have ever had, and we are directed to them.
I do not know how we have arrived at this point. I do not know whether Russia has influenced us to become somewhat like the Soviet Union of old, or whether we have arrived at this point on our own.
But, what a day in the history of America, that we have arrived at this point. And the people? They do not even consider on these things. They do not even consider the likenesses to the old Soviet Union. They would in a minute laugh off what I say.
Oh, it seems there was something on Fox saying the Democrats are returning to their silly ways of speaking of Russian influence. I wasn't listening, just reading the lines as they ran across the bottom of the screen. Yes, dismiss it all as silliness. Laugh it all off. Say it is crazy.
Did they influence our 2016 election? Did they try? Listen to the state media, if you like, for it will certainly dismiss it all.
Has Russia ever tried to turn us into a country like their own? All I can say, is if you look at it objectively, yes, we are more along the lines of the Soviet Union of old than we have ever been.
And, it shocks me. And, it shocks me to see the people can't see it. While you are sleeping, America, what has happened?
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