Tuesday, September 12, 2017

The left-wing media is just as narcissistic as Donald Trump

We know that whether you support Donald Trump or don’t support Donald Trump you have very strong feelings about him. It is hard to find too many people that don’t have an opinion about him.

Some feel his narcissism is very dangerous for this country. Others feel this is the way he is and that his strong personality is why they like him. If you read this blog regularly you know I am far from a fan.  Yet, I am getting tired of certain left-wing media groups, organizations, or even individuals who have built up a cottage industry of sorts patting themselves on the back every time someone says something derogatory about Donald Trump.

You see the headlines such as so and so destroys Trump in one tweet. So and so has the perfect response to Donald Trump. And they are the most ridiculously inane statements. There is no real punch to the actual statement. They did not take down Donald Trump. They do not prove anything, nor do they offer any solutions or alternatives to what Donald Trump said, proposed for policy, or did. It is banal rhetoric. Still we get headlines that do nothing for anyone.

I do not want Donald Trump to be my President. I think he is the worst President in our history and this includes such luminaries as Coolidge, Hoover, Cleveland to name a few regularly bad Presidents. These same people living off this narcissistic criticism of him, though offer nothing in return. They lump all his supporters into Clinton’s infamous deplorables group not realizing most of the people that voted for him were/are angry at the Washington establishment. There are racists and alt right fanatics that support Trump, yet they alone do not make up the tens of millions of people who voted for him.

I am borrowing this analogy. What all these self-righteous left-wing media fanatics do not seem to realize is that Donald Trump is the actual realization of the 1980’s movie where the newscaster tells everyone to go to their window and yell out into the night that I am not going to take it anymore and the movie shows people all over the nation screaming out their window. Solved nothing, but in the movie, it gave everyone the impression they did something.  Fast forward to 2016 and people couldn’t take it anymore and voted for Trump instead of yelling out their window.  Unfortunately, Trump is incapable of rational governance by himself. And he surrounded himself with others incapable of rational governance. A few people have since tried to bring about some rational attempt, but we are nowhere close to where we need to be.

The many people who voted for Trump that were basically yelling out their window though are not deplorable people. They are hardworking individuals who felt cheated by what has happened in Washington D. C for the last few decades.  Republican leadership has been running policy that benefits what is now known as the one percenters. Many working and middle-class people who are basically moderately conservative saw their lively hood slowly taken away. Their children suffered with weaker and weaker education levels decade after decade so the children as adults are easily swayed by the anger created by other elements in our society.  The Democrats have not done any better by playing to the far left and adopting social pathways that scare away these same moderate conservatives or create policies that benefit the country as a whole.

Take for example all the bathroom bills for transgenders. It sounds so wonderful to say everyone should be treated equally and we need to make sure all these disadvantaged groups need to go to the bathroom like the way they feel.  Simplified example yes, but what many on the far left do not realize that it is more than a bathroom bill, it is pushing envelopes this group of people are not ready to have shoved down their throat. And that is the way they feel. Many people just aren’t comfortable with the thought of a grown man because he thinks he is a woman walking into a bathroom with their 12-year-old daughter. That is much more than they can accept, partly because this is happening fast; partly because education levels have been diminishing and ignorance makes change harder; partly because some are intolerant people; and partly because this scenario scares the crap out of them. This does not give the right for the left-wing media though to talk down, berate, bully, etc. because they think they know more than everyone else. Quite frankly, they don’t.

For all their criticisms, what have they given us to help us move forward. They no more have any ideas than Donald Trump. Trump at least spits out inconsequential rhetoric that appeals to his larger base. He made promises. He is not or can not keep them, but he made them. He spoke to their anger. The left-wing media fuels this exact same anger. Middle America, or what some call the fly over states care, they care deeply. Many have deep rooted value systems they see Washington has lost.  They see the left-wing media enhancing this loss of values by supporting issues that make no sense to them.

I am not talking about every media outlet. I am talking about a significant amount of verbiage coming from a segment of what might be called the establishment media, a certain one percenters of elitism that is based on their own self-importance. This is not all of the liberal media.

It is enough to anger people who truly believe in family values and hard work. The people who have believed in the American Dream their whole lives and have watched it slip away for their children are angry. These are not deplorable people. They are angry people. There are some deplorables who do support Trump, but they are fringe and dangerous elements of our country. The angry are middle America who went to the voting booth and voted I am not going to take it anymore.

The quasi-intellectualism from certain aspects (one percenters) of the liberal media is doing just as much harm to this country with their self-righteous denunciation of Trump supporters. They are fueling their anger, pushing them further into the arms of the dangerous fringes of our country; and making it more difficult to bring this country together if and when Trump may be impeached or at the very least charged with crimes he must answer.  Their narcissistic attitude of we know more than everyone else and we are going to flaunt it in your face is just as dangerous as Trump’s self-absorbed narcissism running this country into the ground and ignoring that he is President of something very special; our country and our constitution.


If we are to move forward, we need to focus on finding solutions to our problems and proposing these solutions to the whole country and get to work. The current leadership of Republicans and Democrats have not been able to do this for decades. They have created a monster of electoral survival that created the Trump monster people believed was going to drain the swamp of this same establishment. No amount of Trump bashing will turn this tide. The more we ignore the real work facing us, the faster our demise will approach us. Russia didn’t win because Trump won, Russia is winning because we are infighting. So, my named one percenters of left wing media need to look in the mirror and ask themselves why are they better than Trump. They haven’t done anything more than Donald.

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