Mr. Smiley is an Idiot
"Based on everything that I’ve read, Donald Trump is a racial arsonist.” So says Tavis Smiley, the longtime BET, NPR television personality. “Based on that, there’s no argument” he reiterates. With this, Mr. Smiley dismisses all other points of view about Trump. Apparently, whatever he didn’t hear or read, didn’t make a sound. Meaning, whatever he did hear and read, must be the truth.
Yes, if I didn’t hear it, it didn’t happen. Such is the basis for dogma regarding just about everything, nowadays, not just Trump.
Did the New York Times say it? If not, it didn’t happen. Did CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR or CNN say it? No? Well, there you go. This, apparently, isn’t elitism. This is truth-telling. After all, everyone I know agrees. This appears to be the current modus operandi of all involved.
In today’s media you can take a name, any name, and add some letters and take away some letters, and you know what it spells? "Satan!" That’s right. Or Trump, it’s all the same. This isn’t the manipulation of information, mind you, its political wisdom (just ask me.)
So, how did a man like Trump (or Trump himself) become a raging success in the most liberal city in these here United States, while simultaneously being a closet member of the Ku Klux Klan? Furthermore, how did Trump become an elite member of the hoi polloi, a hoity-toity insider, in an uber-liberal mecca like New York City, if he was really a right wing fascist?
I’ll tell you how. Because fascism is and always was a left-wing political ideology, which is why it was called democratic socialism. It was a socialist movement made up of folk who thought that a planned economy, overseen by really smart people, was better than a bunch of yahoos acting based on their own skills and highly specialized knowledge in some damned free market. But, you’d never know this when reading newspapers—or books even. Not all books, of course, but the right books….I mean, those books written by the right people…on the Left, that is.
You see, all you need is an imagination, a shitload of arrogance and the facts can be rearranged or omitted as needed. “Trump is a fascist.” “Trump is a closet democrat who’s really trying to help Hillary get elected.” Why else would he spend tens of millions of his own dollars in a fake run for the presidency? Or, if that doesn’t work, Trump hates immigrants because he wants a border, as all countries do, including Mexico. Who, by the way, guards their border zealously against all those poor Central Americans looking for a marginally better life somewhere else? (Can you imagine a life where Mexico, a country controlled by a single party from at least the time of Zorro, is that better place?)
“Oh. That was racist.” Leftists will respond.
Yes, who needs an actual argument, based on facts when you can scream racism as a substitute?
Listen, Tavis Smiley may be a very nice person, but I’m dead sick of Liberals acting outraged by their selective listening skills and their carefully managed reading tendency’s. Grow up, people. Step outside your cocoon and see what the other side has to say. And no, I don’t mean, as it’s filtered through the Left’s political centrifuge. I realize that’s asking a lot. (Or, in the real world, the bare minimum in terms of meaningful intellectual standards.) If, after that, we find Trump wanting, OK. We’ve done our due diligence. But only then. Anything less is simply giving in to the most powerful influences in the country without a fight. This applies to Bernie Sanders, too.
It does. Really. I’m not kidding. And, if that doesn’t demonstrate the spirit of objectivity, nothing will.
Mark Magula
Yes, if I didn’t hear it, it didn’t happen. Such is the basis for dogma regarding just about everything, nowadays, not just Trump.
Did the New York Times say it? If not, it didn’t happen. Did CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR or CNN say it? No? Well, there you go. This, apparently, isn’t elitism. This is truth-telling. After all, everyone I know agrees. This appears to be the current modus operandi of all involved.
In today’s media you can take a name, any name, and add some letters and take away some letters, and you know what it spells? "Satan!" That’s right. Or Trump, it’s all the same. This isn’t the manipulation of information, mind you, its political wisdom (just ask me.)
So, how did a man like Trump (or Trump himself) become a raging success in the most liberal city in these here United States, while simultaneously being a closet member of the Ku Klux Klan? Furthermore, how did Trump become an elite member of the hoi polloi, a hoity-toity insider, in an uber-liberal mecca like New York City, if he was really a right wing fascist?
I’ll tell you how. Because fascism is and always was a left-wing political ideology, which is why it was called democratic socialism. It was a socialist movement made up of folk who thought that a planned economy, overseen by really smart people, was better than a bunch of yahoos acting based on their own skills and highly specialized knowledge in some damned free market. But, you’d never know this when reading newspapers—or books even. Not all books, of course, but the right books….I mean, those books written by the right people…on the Left, that is.
You see, all you need is an imagination, a shitload of arrogance and the facts can be rearranged or omitted as needed. “Trump is a fascist.” “Trump is a closet democrat who’s really trying to help Hillary get elected.” Why else would he spend tens of millions of his own dollars in a fake run for the presidency? Or, if that doesn’t work, Trump hates immigrants because he wants a border, as all countries do, including Mexico. Who, by the way, guards their border zealously against all those poor Central Americans looking for a marginally better life somewhere else? (Can you imagine a life where Mexico, a country controlled by a single party from at least the time of Zorro, is that better place?)
“Oh. That was racist.” Leftists will respond.
Yes, who needs an actual argument, based on facts when you can scream racism as a substitute?
Listen, Tavis Smiley may be a very nice person, but I’m dead sick of Liberals acting outraged by their selective listening skills and their carefully managed reading tendency’s. Grow up, people. Step outside your cocoon and see what the other side has to say. And no, I don’t mean, as it’s filtered through the Left’s political centrifuge. I realize that’s asking a lot. (Or, in the real world, the bare minimum in terms of meaningful intellectual standards.) If, after that, we find Trump wanting, OK. We’ve done our due diligence. But only then. Anything less is simply giving in to the most powerful influences in the country without a fight. This applies to Bernie Sanders, too.
It does. Really. I’m not kidding. And, if that doesn’t demonstrate the spirit of objectivity, nothing will.
Mark Magula