They are at peak propaganda. You have a major candidate for governor saying America was never great, and will only be great if we meet some arbitrary standard of equality only met in nations where abject poverty is the norm. Simply doing our best to give everyone a fair shot is not enough: they have to be equal at the finish line. This is where the Democrats are now. Substantially all of them. Cuomo was merely articulating what has become the mean of Democrat views.
The media is at peak propaganda, but as I have commented from time to time, they are going Pravda in a world where the Voice of America is just a channel click or an internet URL away. Yes, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times and others represent a good share of the media consumption in this country. But people flip channels. It would be devastating if a good chunk of their customers starting regularly watching Tucker Carlson’s monologues, or listening to Sean Hannity on the radio. It would not take long. They only have to listen long enough to realize there are major stories which simply are not covered by the complicit media, which focuses on trivia, while ignoring major stories like economic growth.
All of us, once we realize we have been lied to, remember it. And we don’t forgive it easily.
Take a Brandon Straka. What happened with him is he was a generic Leftist, who was very upset when Trump won. Then he watched a video–for some reason, as a resistance to hearing alternative views is a defining feature of the Left–which pointed out that Trump was not mocking the disability of the guy who was lying about him, but the fact that he was lying about him. It was a motion he did often, for all people. Then he watched a video showing how the media was systematically avoiding showing the many black people at a Trump rally. Then he put two and two together, and realized that his whole world view was built on lies.
Self evidently, you cannot build a stable foundation on lies. It is the very instability, the inherent instability, of the world views of Leftists which makes them so nasty, so recalcitrant, so unable to see and bear, much less honestly consider and meditate on, the views of any people who even try to think differently. The Left is a monolith precisely because it has to be. They cannot tolerate dissent. They cannot allow free thought. If they did, the whole project would come apart like a sand castle at high tide.
This is why they are INHERENTLY authoritarian. There is no other possibility. This is why I feared a Hillary Presidency so greatly. Imagine if Hillary were President now, after the first shot of global censorship fired at Alex Jones. She would be praising it and calling for more. It likely would have happened, actually, in the first year of her Presidency, and been extended to as many sites as she thought she could get away with. She would have worked to silence her critics as quickly as possible, and as we have seen, in our modern world this is not hard.
Thank God for Trump. And let us all pray this nest of lies is soon revealed more generally to be what it is, and the American people wake from at least some portion of their trance.