
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In what I believe to be political panic and desperation, Democrats and their media allies have concocted a false narrative in the hope of scaring the voters against the Republican Party in time for the 2022 midterm elections. ; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The bogus narrative claims that (1) the riot on Capitol Hill was an insurrection, and that leaders of the GOP are guilty of sedition, coup plotting and treason; (2) the fanciful insurrection is still going on; (3) those who do not believe the Democrat/media narrative are either complicit or ignorant cultists; (4) that former President Trump controls the entire Republican Party; and (5) that any Republican elected to office represents an existential threat to democracy and to the very survival of the American Republic.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Whew! ; That is a lot of bullstuff to swallow. ; But either the left believes that the American people are hopelessly gullible, or they see it as the ONLY arrow in their political quiver &#8212; as they seem to be losing on issues, policies, competence and general popularity. ; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We know that this propaganda campaign is the core of the Democrats 2022 election strategy because they say so. ; It is not a secret. ; According to top Democrats, they say that electing Republicans will lead to the end of democracy … period. ; They do not point to a few who they may consider bad actors. ; No. ; No. ; No. ; They attack the Republican Party and Republican voters with the broadest of the broad-brush malicious accusations. ; Media personalities say out loud that the GOP must be defeated at all levels – “crushed,” to quote their word.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How the left-leaning media handles it is evidence of both the left’s desperation and that it IS a propaganda campaign. ; If you analyze the news on the epicenter of corrupted and biased reporting, MSNBC, you will see the narrative played out hour-after-hour, day-after-day, week-after-week, month-after-month. ; “Republicans are a threat to the Republic” is the bumper-sticker journalism of the day.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The media is using that first rule of propaganda – Joseph Goebbels’ suggestion that a lie will be believed if it is big and repeated … and repeated. ; But Goebbels forgot Lincoln’s counterpoint that you cannot fool all the people all the time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And that is what seems to be happening to the Democrats’ false narrative. ; Propaganda is always believed by strident partisans – proving the other part of Lincoln’s triplet, that you CAN fool some of the people all the time. ; In a sense, we are seeing the end of Democrats fooling all the people some of the time. ; That time is over.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the Democrats, their narrative-based strategy is a downward spiral. ; The more they hammer the issue, the more the public turns away (e.g. Democrats losing elections, left-wing media ratings sliding, Biden poll numbers plunging) – and as a result they hammer the issue more. ; The media – as the Democrats’ public voice – is trapped by their own obsession and dedication to the false narrative.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Even as they have branded the GOP as the party of the “big lie,” Democrats and the left have offered up a whopper of their own. ; Instead of coming to their senses and the canons of journalism ethics, a major portion of the Fourth Estate continue to play partisan propagandist.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When Democrats content that they, and they alone, are the saviors of democracy (and they actually do say that), their self-proclamation has a familiar ring. ; We have heard that from virtually every despot who claims a popular mandate for one-party rule. ; We heard it recently when both China and Russia claimed that their system is more democratic in serving the people than America’s. ; And now the Democrat position is that giving them absolute power would enhance American democracy. ; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The good news is … it ain’t working. ; The people are rejecting the propaganda no matter how many times they repeat it. ; It is less than a year to the 2022 midterm elections and unless the Democrats suddenly come up with a winning strategy, they will be dragged down by the weight of their own bullstuff. Nothing will disprove the Democrat propaganda lie more than the empowerment of Republicans. ; Democracy will not suffer, and the Republic will not fall. ; Quite the opposite. ; And THAT is what scares the Democrat leaders and their joined-at-the-hip east coast media cabal. ; Republicans may just be the people’s choice in 2022.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, there ‘tis.</p>

Propaganda trumps news more than ever
