America's divide, in one post from RedState

 There are two versions of reality in America.  I, of course, think I live in the "real" one, and that the right wingers live in a fantasy world of alternate facts, lies, and conspiracies.  Since the insurrection at the Capitol, I have been thinking about nothing else.  As an exercise, I wanted to see how many words I would have to change for a comment from RedState to accurately reflect my own beliefs.  I made 11 changes and changed only 5 words.  Please forgive the grammar, it is not mine.

Here is the RedState Version of reality:

The Democrat party, their news & social media outlets, far left radical supporters, Antifa, BLM and the political collusion with China in their agenda towards transforming America into what they have been indoctrinating the last generations into, a Socialist single party leadership. They have used every Communist tactic China uses to control what the public see's, hears, believes. The Democrat party, many Republicans, liberal bias entrenched in government especially intelligence agencies, the use of the left's news & social media to control peoples minds. They have become our Nations greatest threat to our Constitution, our Freedom & Liberties. They want to dismantle the greatest country ever founded and they have about 40% of the population that has been brainwashed into believing that what they are trying to turn our country into will be better, successful, when history shows it never works. The Elite prosper and the average person loses. The agenda is for the left to have no opposition to their ideology, Supreme Power & Greed beyond your wildest imagination. Their agenda does not have the peoples interest in there, not in reality, only in the alternate reality the left lives in.

Here is mine, essentially what I believe:

The Trump party, their news & social media outlets, far right radical supporters, Qanon and the political collusion with Russia in their agenda towards transforming America into what they have been indoctrinating the last generations into, a Fascist single party leadership. They have used every Fascist tactic Russia uses to control what the public see's, hears, believes. The Trump party, many Republicans, conservative bias entrenched in government especially intelligence agencies, the use of the right's news & social media to control peoples minds. They have become our Nations greatest threat to our Constitution, our Freedom & Liberties. They want to dismantle the greatest country ever founded and they have about 40% of the population that has been brainwashed into believing that what they are trying to turn our country into will be better, successful, when history shows it never works. The Elite prosper and the average person loses. The agenda is for the right to have no opposition to their ideology, Supreme Power & Greed beyond your wildest imagination. Their agenda does not have the peoples interest in there, not in reality, only in the alternate reality the right lives in.

 

So this is where we are.  As an educator I know that what textbook you use has a major impact on how my students see history.  It is certainly true that the media you consume has the same effect.


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