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They're now calling it 'discourse' What happened to disinformation?

By now, you've probably seen a host of graphics in the swampwaters of social media, hastily cobbled together by run-of-the-mill milquetoast leftists. Virtue-signalers, viz.

A meme gone viral over the last few days is a checklist that attempts to pacify the reader with a bunch of platitudes, one being "Contribute to discourse, not division."

This, of course, is a less-than-subtle dig at non-leftists. Gaslighting. To oppose the leftist agenda naturally causes "division" in the minds of these people.

However, and as a matter of principle, it is really only our people who have been the ones to contribute — and show interest in — discourse so-called. We're the ones with ideas and questions.

They're the ones scolding you and forcing compliance with their inanities.

In other words, the left divides. Their people dismiss you and want you dead.

The underlying motive is still not entirely clear, but it matters not.

Remember if you wanted to learn more about the coronavirus mania and the resulting panic? You were told to shut up, wear a mask, and get injected with vaccines. Any information that did not tow the party line was called "disinformation" and was not allowed within their polite society.

That's division.

Now, it appears that the political left — the most violent and destructive force in the entirety of Western Civilization — still runs cover for those within its ranks. Lately it's for those who express displeasure in the fact that the gunman in Butler, Pennsylvania "missed."

Once again, this is nothing short of division. There is no discourse where this is remotely appropriate. Yet, the talking heads in corporate media circles and the lunatic fringe spouting "conspiracy theories" are nonetheless given free range.

The meme concludes: "We can transcend the bitterness and be better, even when we disagree."

No we can't. They should, however.

It is their problem and it is much more than disagreement. It is an impossibility.

Where there was once a large fissure within the culture, the last several days have revealed a cleaving on that divide.

For it is not tenable to maintain a polity or a culture with people that hate you and want you dead.

These people are your enemies. They are the dividers.

It is personal. They came for your family and your livelihood. They'll do it again.

It is political — which is, to say, little more than the simple distinction between who is a friend and who is an enemy.

And it has nothing to do with elections.

Some people might think there are hard choices to be made. To the contrary — the choices aren't difficult.

Painful perhaps, but pain is part of life. It's unavoidable.

Suffering, on the other hand, is a choice. For too long folks have been entirely too comfortable suffering and enduring under this regime.

Admittedly, the left may be a catalyst for such "victim mentality," but mentality is a choice.

Attitude is also a choice and you are in control of your choices.

As always,

Brian