The progressives are now spinning their untruths even more emphatically to divert our attention away from their atrocious abandonment of Afghanistan.
Don’t let them do it! Truth is still Truth!
I’ve had many close Democratic friends who were good honest people. Where are the good Democrats now?
The FOUR TACTICS they’re using:
1: “Ghostlighting” is repeating untruth again and again and again and again. “The U.S. is racist” is one of their primary ghostlighting lies.
Certainly we’re not perfect on racism and we must always improve but we can be proud of our progress against racism- we’ve come a very long way from Civil War Jim Crow to 2008 when we elected a black president. Very sadly in the last fifteen years they are intentionally increasing racism to divide us.
Remember that, in the 2020 election, even in the face of their mad four-years-long hatred of Trump, we proved we were half of Americans. They are not our majority rulers.
Recognize these and other of their ghostlighted lies and call them lies!
2. “Astroturfing” is saying or implying that “everyone” agrees with an untruth when it is believed by only a few.
The large majority of Americans disagree with their insulting ideas of who we Americans are.
3. Accusing everyone who disagrees of racism, to silence our objections.
We all want equal respect, rights and opportunity for all Americans regardless of race, color, creed, sex or national origin!
They lie when they call us racist!
Accusing anyone of racism is deeply hurtful, an incredibly effective weapon.
Don’t refrain from speaking up for fear of being called racist. We are not racist!
4. Separating us, using exaggerated fears of COVID, to prevent us from being assured of our long-held truths by each other in personal contact.
Don’t continue separation from your friends! Get together! Talk to each other in person, by phone or online. Share your feelings!
Especially veterans– get together and push yourself to share your feelings openly! We’re all hurting about Biden’s dishonorable abandonment of Afghanistan. Show our feelings to each other! We’re all crying!
Perhaps it seems impossible that such simple and obvious tactics as these four tactics to promote untruth could be successful– but they are being very successful!
Millions of our fellow Americans believe their untruths.
When someone we’ve known well and trusted tells us something, we believe it, are assured and are confident in its truth far beyond most things seen on social platforms.
Social media doesn’t replace face-to-face conversation because social media is so often not truth.
Watch for these four tactics being used against us on the media and identify the tactic being used by name. Recognize and name each time the untruth that is being promoted.
Civil Order
Civil Order is basic communal behavior in which we have rules- laws adopted by us or by our elected representatives, that we all agree to abide by, with anyone including ourselves who breaks the rules being discouraged and, if necessary, punished (the police function), so all abide by the rules we’ve all adopted.
Civil Order is all of us agreeing to follow the rules-laws WE have adopted.
The progressives advocate the abandonment of our civil order allowing themselves and their friends to break our laws.
Immigration
Part of the Progressives’ anti-Civil Order agenda is opening our nation to free immigration by anyone who wants to come here.
Our basic Civil Order also includes private property ownership.
The property we own includes not only our physical property such as land or money but also American privileges such as freedoms, education and health care we’ve earned as a nation through our hard work and great successes and defense in wars.
It is also abandonment of Civil Order to end respect for private property,
They want us to abandon Private Ownership Rights and Civil Order.
Ask them, “Do you lock your door when you leave your home?”
If they truly advocated open borders, they would open their homes to all to come and enjoy and take what they wished.
We must now work to rebuild our friendships.
The COVID separations, declining religious involvement, lower marriage rates, and changes in the workplace have caused us to see our friends less.
After a prolonged period of social isolation, Americans are dusting off their social calendars. But as Americans try to rebuild and reconnect, a new survey conducted by the Survey Center on American Life finds that the social landscape is far less favorable than it once was.
The number of close friends Americans have has plummeted.
This friendship recession is particularly bad for men. The percentage of men with at least six close friends fell by half since 1990, from 55 percent to 27 percent. The study also found the percentage of men without any close friends jumped from 3 percent to 15 percent, a fivefold increase.
Single men fare the worst. One in five American men who are unmarried and not in a romantic relationship report not having any close friends.
Active close friendships assure us that the truths we’ve always known are still true.
Close personal friendships assure us the anti-truths promoted by some groups are not true.
Each of us must work and move to regain and resume our personal friendships in such groups as::
- Churches.
- Civic/community activities.
- Volunteer work.
- Work friendships.
- Sports.
- Men’s/women’s groups.
Dave Bunting, Sept. 6, 2021
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