The Death of Billy Graham and Manufacturing Consent
The Death of Billy Graham and Manufacturing Consent
Billy Graham, one of the more influential and significant figures of the last 100 years, died, and only one of America’s five living presidents attended his funeral, Donald Trump. Not George Bush Sr... Not Bill Clinton (or Hillary.) Not George W. Bush. Donald J. Trump was the lone presidential attendee.
Shortly after Rev. Graham died, Rolling Stone magazine published their own obit, decrying Graham as an evil man, for his opposition to gay and trans people. You’d think that Rolling Stone began as a pro-gay, pro-trans publication, instead of a counter-culture newspaper, specializing in sex, drugs, and rock & roll, with Marxist tendencies. In 1967, when Rolling Stone first began, almost no mainstream outlets were writing about homosexuality, which, the American psychiatric association considered a deviant lifestyle. And no one, until recently, had much to say about gender dysphoria, aka, transgenderism, either, which was widely viewed as a mental illness, until 2011. Let’s be clear, these weren’t rightwing Christians. Freud wasn’t a Christian, neither are or were most Psychiatrists. But, like the racist Jim Crow politics that once infested American life, which was substantially a product of the Democratic party, history has and is being rewritten.
Maybe that’s why Billy Graham's funeral was passed over—the usual public condolences aside—by 4 of the 5 living presidents, (Bush Sr.’s age was probably a factor.)
Graham was a holdover from a different era, and like the rest of Christian America, has become the unwitting enemy of the New Transnational State—that wide swath of politicians, transnational corporations, media elites, and billionaire class, who believe it is their right to direct your future, whether you want them to or not. Christian Americans tend to vote conservative, making them a powerful voting bloc and an impediment to what is the increased globalization of politics and our economy. National sovereignty and individual autonomy are impediments to globalization. Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush were perfectly acceptable to globalists. But Donald Trump, a true outsider, is a wild card, unpredictable and dangerous to the status-quo. That’s why meaningless campaigns to tear down statues, to use the threat of “Fake News,” are the mechanisms of power used to control what you see and hear, and this process is well underway. If you won’t comply, they’ll flood the country with immigrants, giving them special rights, food stamps, housing, free healthcare, all paid for by you.
Should you speak out, the The New Transnational State will vilify you, call you a bigot, a homophobe, a transphobe, a whatever-phobe, in an effort to silence you. And people will simply go along, based on their own preferences and prejudices, believing that, aside from themselves, America is/was a racist place and evil to minorities. This they will do without ever looking at the actual evidence. Why work that hard, when a blog post will substitute. The fact that tens of millions, even billions of people, would flood into this country given the slightest chance, should be a clue. But the clueless are clueless for a reason.
That’s why Billy Graham, a man who helped reshape the moral compass of the world, for the better, was ignored in death by four presidents, except a few public utterances, liberal and conservative alike. In that sense, Rev. Graham was a symbol, like a Civil War statue, a reminder of a past that progressive Americans would like to forget. And they hope you will, once these memories are eradicated from public life, and history is rewritten.
The public snubbing of Rev. Graham, the tearing down of monuments, are symptoms of a broader agenda to silence dissent. The internet has made that very hard, however. And that is why status-quo politicians and billionaire investors are trying desperately to control the global internet, as well.
Little by little, bit by bit, the powerful do, what they’ve always done, they manufacture consent, so they can reshape the world in their image, and woe to those who fight back. That is the new battleground, same as the ole battleground. The only real difference being, we can see the faces of the enemy, in a way that previously was not possible, which is why they slither back into dark places, hiding, as always, from the light.
Mark Magula
Billy Graham, one of the more influential and significant figures of the last 100 years, died, and only one of America’s five living presidents attended his funeral, Donald Trump. Not George Bush Sr... Not Bill Clinton (or Hillary.) Not George W. Bush. Donald J. Trump was the lone presidential attendee.
Shortly after Rev. Graham died, Rolling Stone magazine published their own obit, decrying Graham as an evil man, for his opposition to gay and trans people. You’d think that Rolling Stone began as a pro-gay, pro-trans publication, instead of a counter-culture newspaper, specializing in sex, drugs, and rock & roll, with Marxist tendencies. In 1967, when Rolling Stone first began, almost no mainstream outlets were writing about homosexuality, which, the American psychiatric association considered a deviant lifestyle. And no one, until recently, had much to say about gender dysphoria, aka, transgenderism, either, which was widely viewed as a mental illness, until 2011. Let’s be clear, these weren’t rightwing Christians. Freud wasn’t a Christian, neither are or were most Psychiatrists. But, like the racist Jim Crow politics that once infested American life, which was substantially a product of the Democratic party, history has and is being rewritten.
Maybe that’s why Billy Graham's funeral was passed over—the usual public condolences aside—by 4 of the 5 living presidents, (Bush Sr.’s age was probably a factor.)
Graham was a holdover from a different era, and like the rest of Christian America, has become the unwitting enemy of the New Transnational State—that wide swath of politicians, transnational corporations, media elites, and billionaire class, who believe it is their right to direct your future, whether you want them to or not. Christian Americans tend to vote conservative, making them a powerful voting bloc and an impediment to what is the increased globalization of politics and our economy. National sovereignty and individual autonomy are impediments to globalization. Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush were perfectly acceptable to globalists. But Donald Trump, a true outsider, is a wild card, unpredictable and dangerous to the status-quo. That’s why meaningless campaigns to tear down statues, to use the threat of “Fake News,” are the mechanisms of power used to control what you see and hear, and this process is well underway. If you won’t comply, they’ll flood the country with immigrants, giving them special rights, food stamps, housing, free healthcare, all paid for by you.
Should you speak out, the The New Transnational State will vilify you, call you a bigot, a homophobe, a transphobe, a whatever-phobe, in an effort to silence you. And people will simply go along, based on their own preferences and prejudices, believing that, aside from themselves, America is/was a racist place and evil to minorities. This they will do without ever looking at the actual evidence. Why work that hard, when a blog post will substitute. The fact that tens of millions, even billions of people, would flood into this country given the slightest chance, should be a clue. But the clueless are clueless for a reason.
That’s why Billy Graham, a man who helped reshape the moral compass of the world, for the better, was ignored in death by four presidents, except a few public utterances, liberal and conservative alike. In that sense, Rev. Graham was a symbol, like a Civil War statue, a reminder of a past that progressive Americans would like to forget. And they hope you will, once these memories are eradicated from public life, and history is rewritten.
The public snubbing of Rev. Graham, the tearing down of monuments, are symptoms of a broader agenda to silence dissent. The internet has made that very hard, however. And that is why status-quo politicians and billionaire investors are trying desperately to control the global internet, as well.
Little by little, bit by bit, the powerful do, what they’ve always done, they manufacture consent, so they can reshape the world in their image, and woe to those who fight back. That is the new battleground, same as the ole battleground. The only real difference being, we can see the faces of the enemy, in a way that previously was not possible, which is why they slither back into dark places, hiding, as always, from the light.
Mark Magula