As IF Times

Source: Barack Obama Says He Would Have Beaten Donald Trump | Politics | US News

There’s a famous scene in the classic 1975 movie, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, in which the heroes encounter the Black Knight in the forest. After a series of mortal wounds suffered in a fight including loss of limbs, the Knight insists that he can still win if only by biting his antagonist.

This scene pops to mind when you hear the braggadocio by the outgoing President on what would have occurred in the recent election had he been allowed to run again.  The delusion displayed by this opinion is perhaps the most apt summary of the worldview prevailing during his entire term in office.  The disconnect from observable reality has been a defining characteristic of the Democratic party and more extremely so in the past generation. The reality of course is the wholesale rejection of the Democratic worldview, demonstrated not only by the loss of the Presidency and both houses of Congress in the latest vote, but also manifest by the over 1000 federal, state and municipal seats lost by Democrats during the 8 year term of the sitting President.

Seventy six year old Nancy Pelosi was re-affirmed to lead the Minority house even after the massive rejection of Democratic candidates by voters under her watch.  Her re-instatement prompted her to conclude that “the party doesn’t want a new direction”, again invoking the Black Knight.  As odious a person as they portray Donald Trump to be, the voters chose him instead of them.  What does that tell you?

Usually, the bubbles of delusion are burst when they fall upon the unyielding pins of reality. The abstract world of reality is an unfriendly place for much of the left these days, due in large part to the echo chamber in which they exist.  When the closed intellectual ecosystems of academia, media and ideological thought constantly reinforces a paradigm, it’s easy to believe that this represents reality.

This explains the abject horror and disbelief displayed when their candidate didn’t prevail in the last election.  From the non-stop wailing and moaning, you’d think that Justin Bieber announced his retirement in front of 12 year old girls.  In fact, the puerile antics of many grieving drama queens are just as juvenile in their displays of petulance.

For his part, the new President-elect Trump has signaled that he will move to dismantle many of the glass houses built over the past few generations such as the EPA and that many sacred cows, (like the U.N.) may be sacrificed.  Not only will he repudiate many of the ideological goose chases by the last President, he vows to rid the country of deep rooted rot in its institutions.  This is the mandate he was given; to push back and fight for rational policies; instead of riding unicorns battling straw men.

Source: Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy – The Washington Post

Now that The Donald has secured the GOP nomination for President,  the onslaught from the mainstream media outlets begins. They’ve clearly put as much thought into their attacks as Trump puts into any given speech.  While Trump just riffs off his original main theme of Make America Great Again, the media seems to subscribe to a central talking point source for their material. Observe the following headlines from the ‘major’ news outlets:

We know that the news business is not exactly robust these days, especially among the liberal outlets and now we know why.  As these headlines from the different sources show, there’s no need to read all of them.  If you’ve read one, you’ve read them all.  This could in fact be a cost saving measure as it’s possible that only one poli-sci college student is responsible for writing the story and the news outlets just syndicate it.

In this respect, the media has adopted the Russian Pravda news model; one central source for news, no thinking needed. Instead of news collection, it’s the news collective. One of the most effective techniques of creating a reality from nothing is to flood the news space with the same repeated message until it becomes so familiar to people that over time, the narrative becomes the truth.  Good is bad, Whites are evil, hands up don’t shoot, global warming; the whole George Orwell thing.

Amusingly enough, the liberal left seems to have run up against an opponent in Donald Trump who is as adept at manipulating the message as they are accustomed to.  So, Lyin’ Ted, Little Marco and now Crooked Hilary will be part of the public discourse.  How soon before Crazy Trump is trotted out by the left?  That should be easy since all of his stated platforms are way out there; build a wall, restrict access to unknown immigrants, bring jobs to America,  America first; all crazy objectives.   The previous guy claimed to halt the oceans’ rise and lower global temperatures… yeah, that was sane stuff.  If anything, the knock on Trump may be for his lack of ambition by comparison.