You might think what you saw on Thursday night was a debate. It wasn’t. Well, technically, it was in that it had all the requisite elements to it, i.e., candidates, microphones, moderators, TV cameras, etc. Make no mistake, however. What you were watching was a highly scripted, highly choreographed Kabuki theater play that you weren’t supposed to recognize as such.
Every single American with a functioning brain already knew that Joe Biden was mentally unfit for the position he held. From the stumbling to the bumbling to the mumbling, it was crystal clear to anyone looking. Despite that, we’ve been told by everyone from the press secretary to members of Congress to the media and every Democrat who could get in front of a camera that Biden was not only capable but robust.
That, of course, was a lie. We knew it was a lie, but they kept saying it, over and over as if their repeating it would make it real. They had to keep up the facade of Biden’s competency until it was no longer needed.
Walter Cronkite’s Report From Vietnam on February 27, 1968.
On that night, America turned against the Vietnam War. It didn’t matter that the Tet Offensive, to which Cronkite was reacting, was a tactical disaster for the North Vietnamese. What mattered was that Cronkite essentially told America that they’d been lied to and that there was little possibility of winning the war. After that, it didn’t matter what happened on the ground. The war was lost in the media and in Americans’ minds.
After Thursday’s utter disaster, a certain percentage of Democrats who believed what they were being told—namely, that Biden was robust but just a bit forgetful—can no longer be under that illusion. They may have been a little skeptical, but they were willing to go along with the narrative because everyone, all the important people—the officials at the White House to the spokesmen for the entire government to the media and countless talking heads—were telling them that they weren’t seeing what they were actually seeing. “The king is wearing clothes!” I’m not going to suggest that all Democrats or even a majority are going to have been red-pilled…but some will.
There are going to be a certain number of Democrats who step back and say, “Wait a minute!” and recognize that they have been lied to about everything for at least the last two years. The stumbling while walking up the stairs. The shaking hands with ghosts. The walking the wrong way during photo shoots, and the nonsensical utterances and non-answers to questions.
All of it was explained away in a manner that suggested they weren’t seeing what they were actually seeing. Now they know the truth and know they have been lied to, taken advantage of, and taken for granted… and some will be mad as hell about it and say, “If they were lying to me about this, what the hell else have they been lying to me about?”
And it’s not like they must look very far. They’ve been told that Donald Trump is basically the devil incarnate, and if you watched the debate, that’s certainly not true. They tried to say that it was Trump who is losing his capacities, and if you watched the debate, that’s clearly not an issue.
“If all of that is a lie, what else is?” And that’s the last thing the Democrat elites need or want: A voter who actually starts to look and learn for himself, particularly one with a skeptical eye to their approved media and the Democrats’ propaganda.
Now, again, I don’t expect this to be a majority or even a numerically significant minority of the Democrats and independents. But then, it doesn’t really have to be. The last election, in which over 150 million votes were cast, was “decided” by somewhere in the ballpark of 100,000 votes, or about .0006% of the total vote. Moreover, after the 2020 election, 9.4% of Biden voters said they would likely have changed their vote had they known the Hunter laptop story was true.
Finally, there are going to be other Democrats who wanted someone other than Biden but now feel like they were bamboozled. They have been cheated just as Bernie’s voters were cheated in 2016. These voters may very well stay home or vote for some candidate other than the one the elites and moneymen force on the party.
We’ll see how this plays out, but this would not be the first time in history when the elites who think they’re smarter than the plebs have overplayed their hands and ended up sinking their own boat. Hillary Clinton can tell you a little something about that.
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