BTRTN: What Do We Do When What Divides Us Is Actually Bigger than What Unites Us?

[reggieandlee]

Born To Run The Numbers challenges the age-old premise that recurs in many versions and phrasings throughout U.S. history... "what unites us is bigger than what divides us." There is something bigger: objective reality.

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/06/btrtn-what-do-we-do-when-what-divides.html

Excerpts: "Imagine that 66 million years ago, some big orange dinosaur told the other prehistoric creatures about his 'hunch' that the damage caused by the rapidly approaching asteroid would be limited to 'about 15 brontosauruses,' and that the effect of the asteroid’s impact would 'magically disappear by April.' The opinion of the orange dinosaur did not have much effect on physics, math, mass, velocity, and biology. Just ask all the dinosaurs in your neighborhood...
"The alternate reality created by Fox News, social media, and Trump has achieved a critical mass among such a significant percentage of the population that the alternative reality has achieved its own reality. It is now a fully closed loop that has a big enough media presence and a sizable enough audience that it takes whatever it needs from the host organism without worry that it can be excised. It has metastasized to the point where we, as a nation, can no longer cut out the cancer. It is beyond curing. We are a patient struggling to control a chronic illness, and the more it grows, the more it is likely to kill us...
"Powell choose to characterize his disdain for Trump on the exact issue of the 'alternate reality.' In his recent CNN interview, Powell said 'I think he has not been an effective president. He lies all the time. He began lying the day of inauguration, when we got into an argument about the size of the crowd that was there. People are writing books about this favorite thing of lying. And I don't think that's in our interest...'
"In just 146 days, we have the chance to rescue our nation.."

[Hortensis]

1. :) Except, completely untrue. No wonder imagining an orange dinosaur

is required to kick off this notion.

What we need, what we just want, and what we believe in common are all enormously greater than RW media messages. Anyone who doubts that might try just going without water for the next 72 hours. But don't try that initial experiment on babies or small children. The believers who would rush to protect fragile, helpless little ones from it make up all political groups.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Bush ,Chaney, Rumsfelt all

Told us they
wanted to create a alternative reality,to facilitate full spectrum dominance.

They drove people into insanity and sociopathic behaviors and beliefs.

Through faux news,AM radio,excusing Hate, murder state violence.
Increasingly grusome and rampant violence on TV, to desensitize people.

Thier money and mind games and
the gaslighting,financial abuse,atomizing communities. It goes on and on this crime against life.

The republicans through each republican president has worked on this goal. They wanted total control and domination over not only America,but the world.