I've been posting some of the best reactions and meltdowns from the left to RedState. If the election is the Super Bowl for people paying attention to politics, then lefty meltdowns are the commercials.
If you haven't watched them yet, please enjoy these offerings before you continue.
(READ: Enjoy Some of the Most Unhinged and Delicious Reactions to Trump's Victory on Social Media)
There's a common theme among these meltdowns. A good deal of these people believe that now, with Donald Trump elected, either they or people they care about, will either have their rights taken away, imprisoned, reduced in terms of personhood, or flat-out killed.
A common theme you'll hear among them is something along the lines of "I hope your cheaper gas was worth putting me in danger."
“I hope you enjoy your cheap gas” 🤡
— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) November 6, 2024
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Yes, it was, because we're going to get cheaper gas, and they get to have no rights taken away. The only person putting them in danger is themselves, because you're hyping up your own stress to unhealthy levels for no reason. I also imagine some of these people will become so irate that they lash out at people, damaging their own relationships. Some might even become physical, as that's also a pretty common thing that happens among the left.
But I digress. The core of the issue here is that these people actually believe this stuff when they have no real reason to. The only reason they do is because of fake ones given to them by the media, activist groups, Democrat politicians, and their own associations in their ideological bubbles.
The funny thing about humans is that they can actually reprogram their own brain by embracing ideas, causing themselves to think certain thoughts far easier than others. If you've given yourself to hearing about Trump and his supporters being evil, it becomes much harder to correct to see reality over time. They harden their hearts and soon, they're nigh unreachable. Something has to occur that pushes them out of it.
But we can see just how effective the media was in leading people to think this way.
According to the Media Research Center, the media set a record for having the most positive coverage for Democrats in its history:
The final Media Research Center (MRC) study released last week showed evaluative coverage of Harris — excluding “horse race” assessments — on ABC, CBS and NBC was 78% positive vs. 22% negative. For Trump, those numbers were flipped: just 15% positive press, vs. 85% negative coverage. Subtracting Trump’s positive press from Harris’s, the advantage to the Democratic nominee was 63 points, the greatest in the modern media age. [See methodology explanation at the end of this article.]
The previous worst display of imbalanced campaign coverage came just four years ago. In 2020, the MRC found former Vice President Joe Biden basked in 66% positive network coverage, vs. just 8% positive coverage for then-President Trump, a 58-point imbalance in favor of the Democrats. (That year’s coverage was also the most negative for any presidential nominee, even worse than what Trump received in 2016 and this year.)
It kind of makes sense that it would be that high as Kamala Harris was a purely media-created candidate, however this kind of reporting doesn't make a savior of the people without making a villain out of her opponent.
If you're a RedState reader, you probably noticed an unending tidal wave of articles detailing the media's bias and corruption when it comes to its reporting. Making claims about anything Trump said, overblowing it, painting it as dangerous, and then repeating it endlessly is going to program a lot of people into thinking Trump is actually a dangerous man.
(READ: John Stossel Expertly Highlights Just How Biased the Corporate Media Is)
In reality, the only person coming for your rights were Democrats who openly preach about the need for a scaling back of the Constitution, and constantly boast that they're going to take people's guns and restrict their speech.
Trump often calls the media the enemy of the people, and he's not off the mark. The corporate media isn't reporting, it's programming people. It's brainwashing them into believing certain things so that the agendas it supports can be carried out.
This makes the media a legitimately dangerous entity in our country. It's able to sell more self-destruction and discord than any drug dealer on the street. It's legitimately something that needs to be phased out and minimized.
The good news is that I see this happening. The corporate media is a slow, lumbering beast that can't keep up with the internet. More people go to X for news than flip on a television now. It's going to become an outdated form of news-gathering by the time some of the older generations who still watch it pass away.
(READ: The Corporate Media's Power Is on a Literal Time Limit, and It Needs to Prepare for the End)
While the corporate media beast's existence is on a time-limit, it needs to be reduced in the population's mind's eye in the meantime. Discredited, mocked, and sidelined until it's an afterthought when it comes to getting the latest on current events.
The health and well-being of the people and civilization as a whole depend on this happening.