The Joe Biden situation is old news now, but that doesn't mean there isn't still plenty left to say.
CNN's Jill Filipovic wrote this:
At some point I'll write longer on this, but I think part of the reason the Biden-must-go story has been so huge is that a lot of commentators / voters / even members of the press feel angry and betrayed. Many of us largely trusted Biden's team when they insisted he was fine. The debate made very clear that he's not fine. Initially, I think many of us felt some combo of pity for Biden and fear for the future. Now, I think there's rising resentment at being had.
Christina Pushaw responded: "The entire country was already well-aware of Biden's mental decline. You really expect us to believe that the ONLY people who were fooled by Biden's press team were the journalists whose JOB it is to cover Biden?"
For that matter, Dave Smith added that even if Filipovic's obviously false statement were true, it amounts to "an unbelievable admission. This CNN columnist was under the impression that Biden was fine (how could anyone have possibly known?) because she 'trusted' Biden’s team. That is the role of the media after all, to blindly trust the President’s team."
You and I know that the purpose of the American media is not to inform but to shape how people think.
Our crummy historians often do the same thing: their neat little lessons are supposed to inform our decision making today.
I just recorded an episode of the Tom Woods Show airing later this week with David Stockman, whose book The Great Deformation is a much-needed revisionist economic history of the 20th century -- as well as the 21st, with his top-notch coverage of the bailout propaganda around 2008.
And we said: getting the history wrong does indeed cause people to support stupid things in the present.
The lessons we're supposed to learn from the Great Depression, for example, are either the silly Keynesian one that "underconsumption" was the problem, or that the Federal Reserve's alleged inaction was the problem. Neither are true, but those explanations are intended to make people say, the next time the economy turns down: the economy cannot regulate itself and must be directed by wise navigators, both at the Treasury and at the Fed.
Then the alleged lesson of the New Deal was that depressions can be cured by government spending.
You can imagine what the official lessons of the 2008 crisis and the Covid fiasco are supposed to be.
Notice that the lessons always involve this idea: you need state-appointed experts to direct your affairs. Otherwise, disaster occurs.
The most disappointing thing about the Internet age is the discovery of how few people genuinely want the truth. It's out there if they only look, but they'd rather just repeat whatever slogans the elites feed them and instantly adopt whatever cause of the day is.
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