Watch as our media elites make a fool of themselves and ignore facts.
An election cycle is a great example of the corrupt system in our media. First, the media coverage about the candidates is only one part. Next comes the reporting on the elections. The outcome of the election will show a stark dichotomy. A Democrat winning is a signal that a smart populace has granted free reign to the winner through a mandate. They must understand that they won narrowly and have to listen to the voice of those who are not included in the decision.
Another difference is: The Democrats win, proving the system’s uncritical perfection. A GOP win leads to the media turning introspective and seeking out the causes. That is how Donald Trump ends up spending months denigrating his loss being called an “open threat to democracy” while Stacey Abrams continues living in denial for her election loss for years and can rise in her party. According to the press, they are furious at losing Democrat elections and look for a way out.
Note how we are currently enduring long segments of game-film analysis and lengthy think pieces about the accursed racism of Tuesday’s winners. It is rare to hear pundits offering somber reflections about Republican losses. Instead, we hear the usual arguments that the voters rejected outmoded or intolerant policies and that the GOP must adapt. The problem is when they give the Republicans a show of power. This week, journalists are in serious trouble.
The first issue is both the most obvious, and the laziest — Republicans campaigned on fear and motivated their racist base. The hilarious result is that Virginia saw a Hispanic lawyer general and black lieutenant governor win. It’s the first instance of Republicans being racist since they elected Terry McAuliffe (a transparent image of political privilege).
The media is now confused by how Republicans gained control over messaging about schools. This topic was thought to belong to Democrats. There was a strong backlash to Terry McAuliffe telling parents that their kids were not in charge of the education they choose, school boards being made more authoritarian and parents being ordered to keep quiet. Many of this is evident, yet the intelligent people in the media are having trouble with it.
They attempt to understand the issue at The New York Times but are trampled by their bias. They telegraphed their problems in just their headline, resorting to the tired explanation of “Republicans Pounce,” before changing it out not once but twice.
Now it is ”Seize.
It’s a shame! @NYTimesHow do you spell it?What? pic.twitter.com/Bw6vRJ58JI
— Brad Slager – Gourd Of Thunder (@MartiniShark) November 4, 2021
These geniuses explain the events with a distinct tang of anger. As if they were throwing things out, trying to find something that would take root and then somehow, something did.
Seizing on education as a newly potent wedge issue, Republicans have moved to galvanize crucial groups of voters around what the party calls “parental rights” issues in public schools, a hodgepodge of conservative causes ranging from eradicating mask mandates to demanding changes to the way children are taught about racism. The most important driver for Republican candidates in the 2016 off-year elections was the free-floating rage of parents who felt neglected by the government during the worst of the pandemic.
Because they’re really trying to figure out the causes of these problems, I am going to try my best to make it clear for them. Since the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns conservatives have criticised government overreach. When it came to school closings and teachers unions holding schools open, it was even more criticized. These are the exact same struggles that candidates arrive to fight.
It does not concern “Parental rights are what one party refers too” it is their Actual rights as parents. New York Times reporters cannot believe that their parents can make the decisions about their children. Then calling the issues a “hodgepodge” only illustrates the lack of curiosity they had in exploring things. Whether it was the curriculum, school closings, mask mandates — all of it tied into the school boards and teachers’ unions exerting too much control over the wishes of parents.
This piece has a grand denial because they first take much pains to explain how it is all conjured outrage. They claim that Republicans sensed an opening, “While the conservative news media and Republican candidates stirred the stew of anxieties and racial resentments that animate the party’s base,” To gain a political foothold among voters. However, they do not reveal all the truths at once, but go deep into the article.
However, the election results indicated that Republicans were speaking about education in ways that appealed to a wider cross-section. In Virginia, the Youngkin campaign appealed to Asian parents worried about progressive efforts to make admissions processes in gifted programs less restrictive; Black parents upset over the opposition of teachers’ unions to charter schools; and suburban mothers of all races who were generally on edge about having to juggle so much at home over the last year and a half.
Take a look at this display. After spending 800 words demonizing Republicans’ allegedly racist and scattershot agenda, the Times writers finally admit that they addressed directly parents and members of minorities. The Times journalists initially claimed that this was all just a fabricated hysteria from the right-wing media and the party, but later admitted they addressed legitimate concerns of all political parties.
You can see this split wisdom in other parts of the media. After Tuesday’s results, Critical Race Theory is all the focus, with the press desperately trying to reclassify what it is — or even if it exists. Numerous pundits are making the absurd claim that Critical Race Theory is not being taught at schools. This is a falsehood, which I will address in a forthcoming piece. Take a look at this paradox that journalists made for themselves.
They are so flustered by the repudiation CRT has received from parents of different demographics that they have started to reject it. Many in the media are even trying to discredit its existence.
Nicolle Wallace:
It is insane.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: “Critical Race Theory, which isn’t real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection endorsed Republican.” pic.twitter.com/ARppUNUuGy
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 3, 2021
Andrea Mitchell:
Andrea @MitchellReportsOn @NBCNewsNOW doubles down on disinfo: “Loudoun County, this is where critical race theory, this conspiracy theory that is really made up. It’s not taught anywhere in Virginia schools. It was promoted…by a person…connected to the Trump White House” pic.twitter.com/qE3dbPnq6q
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) November 3, 2021
So, a question, you galaxy brains–
How can Republicans/right-wing media/parents be racist for blocking something that does not exist? If CRT is not real, and/or this whole issue is a contrivance — a conspiracy theory over non-existent content — why is it such a hot-button issue that it has caused people to move across party lines to fight it? By simply illustrating it as nothing tangible, this would have stopped the whole thing from day one.
Then we are back to that devilish five-letter word — proof. The curriculum exists. We’ve seen it, heard the lobbying and know that the document is available. It would not be possible to fight this phantom problem for so long and as far as we have today.
You cannot also tell parents that they are racists because they want to stop something being taught at schools, if it doesn’t exist. This would be similar to claiming Jim Crow laws are in place today due to businesses banning your fictional friend from using that water fountain. And this underscores so much of the problem we see in the press today — they refuse to make friends with reality.
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