Brainwashed

Trump’s supporters share one commonality: they all choose to be brainwashed. This happens when anyone watches more than one-half hour of the lies offered by FOX News, Newsmax, One America News and a few other fascist-leaning television misinformation broadcasts.

I have several brothers-in-law. One of them was my wife’s roommate when we began dating. I respected him; believing he was intelligent and credited him with his search for knowledge. However, several years ago he moved to the South: first to Georgia, and he now resides in Florida. What I admired about him no longer exists. He is now a right-wing devotee and has become bat shit crazy.

He believes that everything Trump is doing is “great.” He admires Marjorie Taylor Greene because “she speaks her mind.”

It pains me to know that he chooses not to believe the fact that Trump doesn’t know what he is doing, and what he is doing is destroying the lives of tens of thousands of men, women, and children. Trump has a very low level of intelligence. He is not making horrific and destructive decisions by himself. Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk are the forces intentionally destroying America’s future.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a hate-filled woman who is ugly on the inside and out. She enjoys inflicting pain on others, and takes pleasure in the fact that she is likely the most hated woman in America. She doesn’t speak her mind, her mind was eaten completely by little green monsters years ago. No one is more racist or supportive of the Nazi movement in America than MTG.

I am not judgmental or sanctimonious. I am no better or worse than any other man in the world. It does worry me that facts prove that the American people are the least informed citizens in any other nation. Most Americans agree with Trump, claiming that “they learn everything they need to know from television.” Therefore they know nothing. If anyone watches FOX, Newsmax, NBC, CBS, or ABC news, they are surrendering their intellect and free thought to propaganda machines whose only goal is to increase advertising revenue.

The mainstream media was so biased throughout the 2016 election their actions became criminal. They chose to cover Trump five times more than all other candidates combined. They allowed Trump and his team to avoid answering questions directly as asked. When they did cover Hillary Clinton, it was focused on her use of a private e-mail server as Secretary of State. While she was serving her country, Trump was fucking a porn star or any other woman of any age who would allow him to violate her body. Three wives and many affairs prove that he is a serial philanderer.

On November 9, 2016, I vowed never to watch television “news” again. I have kept that promise and believe that my IQ has risen by several points. I simply refuse to be lied to. Television personalities are an insult to whatever intelligence I possess.

If you have the ability to read, try researching the issues most important to you. The internet allows us to read legitimate publications from around the world and create informed positions about everything important to you and those you love. Every nation is equally important, unlike the lies right-wing politicians offer you without shame and without end.

If you continue to listen to lies, you will eventually accept them as “alternative facts.” Hitler proved this assumption in 1930’s Germany and Trump has made it work for the last 10 years.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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