We Used To Be Better Than This

December 7, 2016 by Lynn McMorris

How can we have intelligent political discourse when people seem to have lost the ability to identify crazy when they see it?

In December 2016, a man walked into a Washington DC pizzeria with an assault rifle to “self-investigate” a completely fabricated story claiming the restaurant was the headquarters of a child sex trafficking ring run by Democratic Party officials. There was no ring. There were no tunnels. There were no victims. There was only a lie, spread deliberately across the internet, believed completely by a man willing to act on it. Fortunately no one was killed.

How many times have we tried to have simple conversations with people regarding politics and the next thing you know they are bringing up sex rings, protestors paid by George Soros, the new world order, kill lists and other batshit crazy crapola?

Our inability to recognize and disregard blatant propaganda and groundless nonsense is destroying the country. It’s how good people are led to bad beliefs and bad actions by those without a shred of honor or decency.

Bullshit propaganda radicalizes Americans in the same way that extremist ideology radicalizes terrorists. They were not born terrorists. Someone fed them the lies which led to erroneous beliefs and unconscionable actions. How is that any different from what is happening in our country right now?

We used to be better than this.