The Left’s Faux Reality

 

“Trump is a fascist!”

“Trump is a white supremacist!”

“Trump is colluding with the Russians!”

What do you do when the realities of the world don’t conform to your pre-formed prejudices and desires for shaping the world around you?  Well if you’re an honest and reasonable person, you re-adjust your prejudices and desires according to reality.  But if you’re a leftist bent on an agenda that isn’t served by reality, it’s the other way around;  you simply invent your own reality to conform to your prejudices, or as Cory ‘Spartacus’ Booker and other leftists like to put it nowadays, you define your own truth.  When you have the luxury of your own truth you’re spared from engaging in thoughtful debate or justifying your actions, and the real world is no longer an obstacle to your schemes and ignoble ambitions.  Anything is possible if you conjure up an alternate universe, and if you can persuade others to pretend along with you.

Alternate Reality has long been one prong of the Left’s many strategies for forcing its agenda on this nation, but since the election of Barack Obama, who showed the Left the art of how it is done, it has been elevated to center stage.  Obama campaigned on the myth that the economic recession that started in 2008 was entirely the fault of George W. Bush and Republicans.  I can’t recall anyone ever asking Obama to defend his reasoning for such a claim.  Instead, the media talked about thrills up their legs and laughed along with him when he adopted his phony, folksy accent and pushed his pretend broom around the stage to “clean up the messes” supposedly left just by the Republicans.  And so the myth was born and it became the Left’s alt-reality that Bush and the Republicans destroyed the economy and Obama rode in on his white horse and rescued us.  That constitutes “their truth” in the Left’s make-believe universe.

Obama was central to advancing the faux reality that man-made “climate change” is a proven fact, because the clever leftists know that the more you evade debate and speak as though something is a fact, the more some people will accept it as fact and ignore any evidence to the contrary.  Obama unilaterally declared the debate to be over, citing the falsehood that 97% of climate scientists agree, and any dissent by people far more educated on climate science than Obama has no place in the faux reality.  And now, of course, the world is doomed in twelve short years (according to the truth of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) which is why we must put our fates and our money into the hands of….wait for it…leftist politicians.  Funny how that works, eh? 

The Obama years also gave us the faux worlds of Black Lives Matter and Colin Kaepernick in which, in a country of 330 million people, a handful of incidents of overly aggressive policing were parlayed into a phony narrative of widespread, systematic racism and oppression running rampant in our police forces and all through American society.  The reality, according to an article written by Larry Elder and featured on the website RealClearPolitics.com, happens to be just a tad different:

No one doubts the existence of bad cops or of cops who make poor decisions or who use poor judgement. But where's the evidence of "systemic" racism? When black Harvard economist Roland Fryer conducted a 2016 study of police use of force, he expected to find widespread evidence of police officers disproportionately using deadly force against blacks. Instead, he found the opposite. Police, he concluded, were more hesitant to use deadly force against blacks than against whites. "It is," he admitted, "the most surprising result of my career." This tracks another study published in 2014 by researchers at Washington State University, who reached the same conclusion, finding "there was significant bias favoring [emphasis added] blacks where decisions to shoot were concerned."

According to the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald: "In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to The Washington Post. The paper categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as 'unarmed.' That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. ... Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population."

The stats don’t lie and Mr. Elder’s information is easy to verify for anyone interested in the truth, but this of course excludes leftists and race hustlers with their own agenda, along with the sheep who so desperately want to believe the hustlers.

A false narrative was used to justify the Left’s shameful partisan rejection of SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh as his accuser was deemed to be entitled to her own truth according to Democrat Senator Corey Booker and his fellow posers, which meant they could simply ignore the abundance of evidence that disproved her story along with the reality of Justice Kavanaugh’s life history that ought to have put a question mark in the mind of anyone who is objective. …Anyone who is objective…..  We the People weren’t supposed to notice the convenient, self-serving connection between Democrats’ faux reality and their political ambitions for that SCOTUS seat; but alas the leftists can’t seem to perfect the art of making everyone bow to their faux realities, though there is no shortage of bullying and demands to observe their rules of political correctness to try and force it to be so. 

The Covington Catholic farce only enjoyed brief success as a faux reality thanks to the marvel of cell phone cameras and the existence of fact-based news outlets to counter the MSM, but the leftists certainly gave it the old college try.

Nowhere is the Left’s faux reality better displayed than in their rabid, delusional hatred of Donald Trump.  The billionaire real estate developer entered politics at the age of 70, when his disgust for what he perceived to be this nation’s misguided and inept leadership finally reached a boiling point.  Despite America’s familiarity with Trump, it was only when he became president that the Left suddenly discovered that this well-known celebrity of 30 years who hob-knobbed with Republicans and Democrats alike was actually a “fascist,” a “white supremacist,” and a “Russian agent.”  Furthermore the wall isn’t a necessary component of border security, it’s purely a “vanity project” to gratify Trump’s ego (in contrast to the walls constructed during the Obama administration which were necessary for our security, apparently).

I take particular umbrage with the Left’s duplicitous faux narrative that Donald Trump is the “world’s biggest liar” or that he is somehow uniquely immoral among American presidents.  Democrats have used Trump’s sloppiness with the truth to double down on their strategy to manipulate young minds so that liberals and the young are completely incapable of distinguishing between lies of careless speech and exaggeration versus far more destructive lies that are meant to trick them into giving up more and more of their Constitutional rights and their liberty.  Historian Lee Edwards did a great job of putting the reality of Trump’s lies in perspective with those of past presidents in his essay for The Heritage Foundation:  “The Massive Lies Of Past Presidents Make Trump Look Honest;” and esteemed historian Victor Davis Hansen gives perspective on claims about Trump’s “immorality” in his piece, “Democratic presidents behaved a lot worse than Trump in the White House,” wherein he asks us to ponder this salient question: 

“The paradox again raises the question: When any one man can change the lives of 330 million, what exactly is presidential morality after all — private and personal sins, or the transgressions that affect millions of lives for the worse?” 

And finally, yours truly rebutted the laughable myth that Barack Obama was an honest broker when compared to Trump. 

Democrat Senator Tom Udall, in announcing his decision not to seek re-election, cited his ability to concentrate the remainder of his term on “…[getting] so much more done to help reverse the damage done to our planet, end the scourge of war, and to stop this president’s assault on our democracy and our communities.”  In the aftermath of the two-year Mueller investigation during which we learned about corrupt individuals within our FBI, Justice Department and State Department and their efforts to undermine a constitutionally elected president and hinder his administration it is nothing short of surreal to hear Udall’s galling and delusional claim that Trump is the one assaulting our democracy.  Good riddance, Senator Udall.  Be sure to take your faux reality with you when you leave.

Leftwing commenters on Fox News articles, especially those relating to Trump, love to call Fox “faux news” and hurl other insults denoting their low opinion of Fox’s credibility; but with the Mueller report now released and no evidence of collusion found, it turns out that Fox’s coverage was far more in keeping with the truth than their beloved “mainstream” news outlets which fed the Left’s need for validation of what they wanted the truth to be.  Will that change their opinion of Fox?  I doubt it, because – for its own selfish purposes - the Left has spawned a culture that no longer cares what is real and what isn’t.  To understand the destructiveness of this mindset, consider how the refusal to face reality would impact someone’s personal life.  If you refuse to face the truth about poor financial decisions, a bad spouse, a child in need of help or behaviors that destroy one’s health, how does denying reality serve your life in the long run?  It NEVER ends well, and it won’t end well for this nation, but the Left’s elites who mastermind alternate realities don’t care about the future of the country or about their fellow citizens.  They care only about their own grasp on power. 

~CW

This essay is also posted at the blog site The Pesky Truth.