The
television is an amazing thing. We can turn it on and watch entertaining
pictures on our screens. A good show will take us away from the very
couch we are sitting on. Suddenly, we are transfixed to the screen and
taken to that place in the story. We don't even realize we are sitting
on a couch in a living room watching the TV screen. We are in another
place for as long as the story is being told. Then, a commercial might
interrupt the story. Does that commercial affect your buying habits?
Similarly,
whatever the news tells us is often taken at face value. If it's a big
story, we might even change the channel and see the other news outlets
telling the same story. There isn't much variation in the way the story
is being told. Is it because this is how things happened, or are they
trying to frame a narrative that we are expected to believe? How often
do we consider what we are being told by the media and whether it is the
actual truth or not? How often do we go around repeating what we were
told by the media?
Many of us have our own BS
detectors. We've learned a thing or two in our lives about the people we
deal with face to face. When you talk to certain people, you become a
pretty good judge of character. That person standing next to you that
you happen to bump into on the street might tell you a story. You know
that person, so you pretty much know whether you can believe what they
say or not. You also know well enough to know if anything that person
says can be trusted or not. Are you putting the media up to the same
standards?
The internet is going to evolve and
change. We aren't going to be able to have the same discussions we have
taken for granted for years. We've discussed subjects of many types.
Some things are more serious than others.
For
instance, we can discuss that TV show or movie in many different ways
beyond the sorts of discussions the studios may have intended. It may
seem harmless, but even those discussions might not be allowed because
the opinions expressed will hurt certain people's feelings. Beware of
the change that's already begun and how much worse it will get.
The
Internet has also been a tool to allow us to get more information.
Because there's been a free flow of ideas exchanged on the internet,
we've learned many things. We've learned beyond what our very media or
even our elected leaders intended for us to know.
Understand
that in some cases what we think we've learned has been untrue. In
other cases, we've learned a truth that they really never wanted us to
know. The very tool that we've used to discuss everything beyond what we
are being told will change. Those discussions will be slowly going
away.
Here's what I believe, despite
repetition to the contrary. What happened in the United States in early
November of 2020 when people went to the polls is suspicious. People
voted, but did they get an honest outcome? Was it a fair contest?
I
have not been given the information that leads me to believe it has
been fair. I have been given repetition of the same story. They say it's
all been fair. Trust what you are being told and believe it all. If you
don't believe it, you're a bad person. Repeatedly, day after day, this
has continued. I believe we are being lied to repeatedly.
This
is an unpleasant truth that many people will refuse to believe. They
know in their hearts what the real truth is. They know the fix was in.
The media had their story set, and everybody followed the script. This
time, the internet was better controlled with the repetition of the same
story. People were "fact checked" and even censored.
Why
would they do that without even bothering to explain? They know why.
The repetition of a lie will hit you at your core. You will suddenly
question whether what you believe to be true is really true. Soon,
you'll give up and accept their story as the truth. It's called
gaslighting, and they do it because it's effective.
Questioning
the election results is not going to be allowed. It's a banable
offense. There could even come a time when you will lose your freedom if
you question what they say. That won't make what they are saying
truthful, but that won't matter to them. Their narrative will be the
official one, and the truth will be buried and deemed a lie.
There
are people who know it's a lie because of the one mistake they made on
election day. There were too many votes to alter the results on time.
For lack of a few hours or a day at the most, they could have had the
results on the screen before election night was over. Had they done
that, many more people would have believed the official narrative
immediately.
Ultimately, it's up to each
individual to believe what they believe. Nobody can tell you what to
think, but there are certain people who will shame you or attempt to
force you to believe as they command. That doesn't change what happened
on the night in question, and millions of people understand that.
Millions
of people are living with a sad reality because of what happened that
night and how it's been handled in the weeks and months since then. It
boils down to an honest question. Can we ever trust that an election
will be fair in this country again? The answer is bigger than any
politician you may like or hate. What do you believe? It's not up to me
to tell you what to think.
