Democrats gain spin momentum

Here’s my current take on our corrosive American spin information war situation. Trump lost a lot of ground after losing the election in November and his disastrous January 6th rally, that devolved into an attack on the US Capitol. Republicans lost even more ground, since losing control of the Senate and the GOP still being tied to Trump. Frequently, Congressional Republicans most vicious spin attackers are Trump’s spin pundits and smear merchants rather than Democrats and liberal media.

Democrats and the mainstream media have lost no time in trying to elevate conspiracy theorist/ QAnon supporter, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene as the new face of the GOP and once again playing their corner-hapless-Congressional-Republicans spin game, to bait them with questions about Marjorie’s wacko comments and beliefs. Here again, Trump is the one who elevated Greene’s profile and embraced her – handing the Democrats and liberal media attack dogs more red meat with which to beat up Republicans.

Democrats and the mainstream media have gained spin momentum, but seem well on their way to overplaying their hand.

It would be easy to blame Trump or one side of rabid partisans, either Democrats or Republicans, for America’s scorched earth spin war, but there are plenty of other players in this corrupt spin war.

To rehash – the mainstream media, to include Hollywood, conservative media, and social media venues online, all play an outsized role in our spin war and without media providing the “spin battlefield” and most of the spin warriors to keep the high-octane spin cycles churning, this spin war would not even be possible. A whole lot of media people are making a vast fortune off of keeping the spin war ablaze every day in America.

Of course, the politicians also make loads of money, drive their political agenda, but most all consolidate their power off of spin war, so they will keep the spin narratives and smear campaigns roiling. Assuredly, there are also foreign intelligence operators, who seek ways to influence America’s spin war and foment more chaos and divides.

President Trump is out of the White House and President Biden is busily signing one executive order after another, advancing the Obama progressive agenda, all while mouthing platitudes about “America United.” The one thing that’s obvious is the scorched earth spin war did not end with Trump being defeated. In fact Trump’s January 6th rally, that progressed to an attack on the US Capitol, has provided Democrats and the mainstream media a wide opening to launch a new, more ominous spin offensive.

Hyping a “domestic terrorism threat” from QAnon and radical Trump supporters, Democrats, the mainstream media and social media honchos are openly advocating limiting the reach of conservative and right-wing media. CNN is asserting FOX News spreads “dangerous disinformation” and efforts must be made to limit FOX news’ reach. A couple months ago Twitter actively began suspending conservative accounts, alleged to be spreading “dangerous disinformation”. Democrats have been floating the notion that the Pentagon must start screening recruits for dangerous far right-wing beliefs and weeding them out of the military. However, there’s no concern about dangerous far left-wing radicals or leftists spreading “dangerous disinformation.”

The Democrats and liberal media are trying to use fearmongering about far-right “domestic terrorists” to silence conservative views and even news outlets that present views liberal censors decide are “disinformation.” Defining “disinformation” and “domestic terrorists” remains fluid presently, but assuredly the only targets the Democrats and liberal media want to paint with spreading “disinformation and being “domestic terrorists” are Trump and anyone who supported Trump.

On the right, the Republican Party remains divided and Trump, reportedly wants to stick to his “stolen election” spin crap show, that led to the January 6th rally where he, his son, Don Jr., his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, fed massive spin lies to an angry crowd. I watched their speeches and believe they deliberately incited that mob and encouraged them to raise hell at the US Capitol. None of them openly advocated violence or attacking the US Capitol, but they used a lot of inflammatory language about fighting to “Stop the Steal.”

Trump, as the leader of the GOP, feeds the Dem’s “domestic terrorism” spin narrative by sticking to his looney-tunes “stolen election” conspiracy theories and makes the case for them. His penchant for latching onto any crazy conspiracy theory he hears about or sees online, is the Dems’ best weapon to keep the GOP in constant disarray. He remains an unprincipled, toxic leader, who has no ability to unite or organize a functioning team, whether it be his own staff, the Republican Party or the country. However there doesn’t appear to be any Republican leader, who can compete with Trump or organize any effort to effectively counter Trump’s aggressive spin war efforts.

The America spin war still rages. Democrats control the White House and Congress, plus social media and most of the American media are run by liberals, who still loyally run the Dem spin. The momentum presently is on the side of Democrats’ and the liberal culture warriors (many of them who are part of the liberal news media).

FOX News, after facing dramatic declines in viewership, after toning down their post-election Trump cheerleading punditry, appears to have moved back into a full-blown Trump spin zone. The Trump spin commandos continue to bleat and blare loudly on social media and right-wing venues.

Meanwhile, Democrats and liberal media pundits are busily working to redefine censorship as protecting Americans from “dangerous disinformation.”

Fun times ahead.