American journalism, news reporting and defense of American sovereignty as a constitutional representative government is in serious peril.
Although the entire world seems to be spinning out of control and that nothing makes any sense at all, it may make a great deal of sense from a different perspective.
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Guest: Jeffrey Lord is an American author, and political strategist in Pennsylvania, who served as an associate political director in the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Lord has worked as a political commentator, contributing material to CNN, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, National Review Online, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Harrisburg Patriot-News. He has appeared as a guest on numerous television and radio programs.
He is the author of The Borking Rebellion, about the confirmation of D. Brooks Smith to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His first Trump book, published in January 2016 (from which he gained the name, “The Trump Defender”)is, What America Needs: The Case for Trump. His more recent book, Swamp Wars : Donald Trump and the New American Populism vs The Old World Order has been well received by conservatives and populists around America.
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Just because it makes no sense to us doesn't mean that events are accidental and make no sense to someone else with a much different vision of an ideal world. The biggest mistake is to assume that human values are consistent and that everyone thinks the same way and share the same values.
History is replete with evidence that pureness of motives with moral imperatives are more the exception than the rule. In a very complex, interconnected and technologically advanced world it only takes a small segment with a very twisted perspective to turn the world into a complete nightmare.
As time goes by this transfer of power from the common man to the power elite becomes more pronounced as they lose their fear of being exposed.
This is the essence of unfettered globalism…..a sense that a very powerful few are in such complete control that no-one or no-thing can stop them from subjugating the rest of us to a world of their making.
Moreover, Americans have believed in the good intentions of government and those elected to represent us from a constitutional legacy of life, liberty and property that made us prosper and grow as a nation beyond our wildest expectations.
So much so, that we became spoiled and complacent to the deprivations and sacrifice of others; believing that somehow we were exempted from the abuses of tyrannical government and limitless deficit spending.
That's how we came to be in the pickle we are in!
It really is just a matter of perspective and the motives that shape that perspective. The wisdom that comes with age is equally subjective.
Grifters like China Joe Obiden that have forged their entire lifestyle through political manipulation and pandering to the tune of the highest bidder, learn little from the school of hard knocks…..having never actually been there.
They are poor historical examples for those with moral integrity.
Shaping a 50-60 year professional career in the political arena can only come at the expense of compromised personal values and a willingness to turn a blind eye when it means making a choice between following the constitutional rulebook or getting re-elected.
For career politicians the fear of losing their cushy jobs and the glow of the national spotlight is far more threatening than selling out their country to globalists and moneyed special interests.
This is increasingly the story of a political system and class that no longer feel responsible maintain and defend our framework of constitutional republican government from the forces of globalism and unlimited financial control.
In the traditional role of journalism, an honest and factual reporting of important events was a way to guard our system of constitutional, limited government.
The best of this group were willing to report the truth regardless their political leanings, knowing that facts were far more important than feelings in conveying truth.
As America grew technologically and network/cable television become the hottest game in town, the power of video persona took media to a whole new level, but with a marked decline in the factual value of the reporting.
The era of empty, glib, handsome, beautiful and personable talking heads wrought a new type of reporting that was much more about viewership than it was about truth.
The big money behind the networks quickly learned to shape the American mind to a form of intellectual soft porn known as daytime television and network nightly news.
The personal lives of movie stars and professional sporting events filled the TV screens in millions of American homes as our society become far less concerned about world and national events, and more concerned about the soap opera lives of the rich and famous they aspire to be.
This in turn combined with a major push by communist intellectuals to control academia and the ever expanding influence of special interest NGOs and unelected bureaucrats, has left us completely at the mercy of talking heads and Marxist sociopaths that now control virtually everything we read, see, or hear.
Those actual journalists that report real news and factual information find themselves on the outside looking in, regardless their talents and abilities.
This has left a void in the news screaming to be filled and a viewing/listening public frantically searching for sources willing and able to report truthful news and worldly events on platforms that are uncensored and accessible to those willing to look.
This was the essence of American journalism in times past, and will be the future of journalism lest we succumb to those that wish to control and censor the last best hope for factual reporting; the internet and uncensored platforms like The Patriots SoapBox and Re:Public.com.
