We Deserve Better
We Deserve Better
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Originally
I decided not to watch the “Presidential Debate” last night
because I knew it would be a political circus, a side show yet
another indication the US was in deep degeneration. But like the
proverbial moth to a flame I was drawn to it so my wife and I watched
it anyway. However I did not watch it uncritically with passion or a
partisan leaning towards one contestant over the other. I watched it
critically and my take-away was, we deserve better as a nation, we as
a people deserve much better than what was on display last night!
No
one in their right mind would call what we saw that an actual debate.
Anyone who grew up during the era where middle school, high school
and college students actually were taught how to formally debate,
anyone who knows the rules of debating knows what occurred last
night was not a debate in any shape form or fashion! It wasn’t even
an informal debate. While there were ground rules and both sides
agreed to them, what we saw was was two adults trading sound bytes
and talking points, personal attacks, vague rhetoric passing as
policies and two so called moderators trying to keep control of the
antics but who obviously favored Kamala Harris over Donald Trump. The
moderators constantly “fact checked” Donald Trump but rarely did
so to Harris. It was worse than a parody or a satire of American
politics.
In a formal debate there is audience participation, members of the
audience are allowed to ask questions and in some cases vote to
determine who won the debate, or announce which team was most
persuasive in their arguments. Obviously that did not happen last
night since that was not the format for that “debate”. We the
people will decide that on November the 5th,
2024.
In
a formal debate there are two teams or two participants taking sides
on a specific issue, one side argues in the affirmative the other
side argues in opposition. The contestants are required to cite their
reasons and back their assertions by supplying data, facts and
logical arguments. There is usually a judge or moderator, the
contestants are required to be civil, they are expected to do their
homework to become knowledgeable about the topic or question and in
some cases such as a debate class, they may be instructed to
subsequently switch sides; those arguing in the affirmative then
argue against and vice versa.
What
we saw last night was not a debate, it was a circus. The moderators
asked questions and neither participant answered them even when
pressed by the moderator for a simple yes or no answer! In a formal
debate the participants are expected to be civil and respectful
towards their opponent, that was not the case last night; each called
the other a liar, each made wild claims and engaged in Ad-hominem
personal attacks on the other. To me it was reminiscent of a junior
high or middle school election campaign for student government with
each side promising longer recesses a better variety of deserts in
the cafeteria or less homework, assertions everybody knows will not
happen; or a campaign where one candidate makes bombastic claims and
assertions too good to be true. That’s what last nigh was, that’s
how bad it was.
Neither
candidate offered any details on their “plans” and both made some
outrageous and outlandish claims. Trump said he would end the wars in
Gaza and Ukraine while he was president elect if he won because Putin
and Zelenskyy feared and respected him. Kamala Harris promised
government money for down payments for first time home buyers, child
care tax credits for infants and an assortment of tax cuts and
give-aways but provided no mention how she was going to pay for all
of this or the impact her policies would have on the rapidly
compounding government debt and interest payments! It was an insult
to the collective intelligence of the American people!
As
bad as the “debate” was, the post debate analysis was even more
bizarre. Surrogates for the candidates made the rounds in the media
spin room (I kid you not that is what the media called it a spin
room) proclaiming with straight faces and righteous fervor their
candidate won, their candidate was the most presidential, most
believable etc. It was like an episode of the Twilight Zone or an
issue in a Superman comic book about Bizzaro World.
Meanwhile
the talking heads, teleprompter readers and “influencers” on the
various cable news channels did the exact same thing shoveling their
biases on their viewers. The only station/channel that exhibited
even a modicum of objectivity was New Nation; meanwhile Fox, MSNBC,
CNN, New Max and the over the air channels held onto their usual
ideological biases trying to sell them as objective journalism and
reporting.
It
was bad, really really bad. We deserve better. We deserve better
candidates, we deserve better campaigns and we definitely deserve
better outcomes. Alas that pitiful display, that so called debate
merely reflects the consciousness, the values, the incivility,
partisanship, animus, fractiousness and mendacity of our society. We
deserve better but in order to have better we must demand better, do
and be better ourselves!
Remaining Sane Amid Constant Gaslighting
Remaining Sane Amid Constant Gaslighting
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Arthur Blair who wrote under the pseudonym George Orwell
said, “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes
a revolutionary act.” Let that statement marinate in our psyche and
consciousness for a while and make the connection to our current
predicament. We are indeed living in a time of ubiquitous and intense
deceit. Lies, disinformation and mendacity permeate our space and
reality. It is everywhere: in advertising, in politics, in education,
in government and even in religion or I might say especially in
religion. The megalomaniacs who desire to control the whole planet
and manipulate us use deceit, fear, and coercion to accomplish their
nefarious goals and agenda.
This is menticide the deliberate destruction of our minds! We’ve
experienced this on an ongoing basis during the past two decades.
Classic examples of gaslighting and manipulation that can easily be
singled out are the “official narratives” regarding: the 2000
presidential election, 9-11, WMDs, the 2008 financial implosion, the
various pseudo-pandemics leading up to COVID-19 such as HIV/AIDS, the
Bird Flu, Swine Flu, SARS, Mad Cow Disease, West Nile Virus, Monkey
Pox to name a few, Operation Warp Speed, the 2020 election and of
course the October 7th Hamas attacks (which was allowed to
happen by Israeli security forces)!
The globalist oligarchs and their captured agencies and
institutions such as: the World Economic Forum, the US FDA, the CDC,
World Health Organization and the US military industrial security
technology censorship apparatus are all in on these charades. As are
the corporate media which they own and control as well as the bought
and paid for politicians who are beholden to them for the bribes,
better known as campaign contributions, insider trading tips and
other perks they’ve exchanged for their souls.
There is an African proverb that says, “Truth is in the
marketplace, is anyone buying?” Objective truth is always available
but it is being vigorously suppressed and mangled via censorship and
the bogus “fact checkers” in the employ of the oligarchs, their
acolytes and minions. The deceit and mendacity are so ubiquitous
almost everything mislabeled as news and reality are fake. We exist
in it like fish in an aquarium totally oblivious to it, mostly
unaware it is all around us.
So how do we adjust and adapt to living in a milieu such as this?
How do we survive and function amid an environment of universal
deceit? First, we have to recognize, realize and admit we are living
in times of abject propaganda, deceit, mendacity and disinformation.
We have to fully grasp there is an omnipresent war going on for our
minds; that there are layers of propaganda and mind control similar
to an onion. For example there are half-truths, lies of omission, out
and out fabrications often simultaneously layered and embedded within
complex psychological operations designed to distort reality, control
our perceptions, undermine our will and volition by controlling the
images, subliminal symbols and narratives to engineer a somnambulant,
Zombie population. As far as the oligarchs are concerned for us,
ignorance and discombobulation are bliss. They treat us like my
friend Catherine Austin Fitts says like mushrooms, “keeping us in
the dark and feeding us cow manure.”
This is part of their program to demoralize us. In this ignorant and
deluded state we uncritically believe whatever they tell us, buy
anything, eat or drink anything no matter how toxic it may be to our
health, behave in ways that are self-destructive that enrich or
accomplish the goals of our misanthropic ruling elites. This is the
state most Americans and Westerners find themselves in today and most
don’t realize it.
Our challenge is to be vigilant, discerning, skeptical, consciously
examining everything we are told through a psychological filter of
self-preservation by asking ourselves, is it in my best interests to
internalize, accept or believe this? I know it seems taxing and
daunting but we are innately equipped to do this. This is how we
should be living anyway. This is what our minds are designed for,
this is what intuition is for, to help us discern and navigate our
lives in ways that enhance and benefit us rather than the
misanthropes and miscreants who view us as “useless eaters”, mere
commodities or consumption units.
We are not in this alone we have access to a Universal Higher
Consciousness and humanity as our support we just have to find
like minded people to form a conscious community of free thinkers,
truth seekers and dissidents. We have the power of choice, we have
agency, we can be self-determining, self-actualizing sentient beings
or we can be Zombies, automatons and cannon fodder for the New World
Order. These two choices are mutually exclusive, we can’t do both
simultaneously nor is it wise to go back and forth; be one or the
other!
I don’t know about you but I don’t plan to go out like that. I
know I have a greater purpose for living than just being a mindless
consumer, a target for harvesting DNA material or collateral for
psychopaths. I do not intend to be one who uncritically lives life
going along with the propaganda and insanity this ruthless cabal has
in store for humanity. We all have to make a decision to take control
of our minds, disengaged from the Matrix, think and act for
ourselves. It will not be easy but the stakes are high and both the
consequences and rewards are too great to abdicate our
responsibilities! We can do it once we put our minds to it.
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