With the tragic post-election murder of four and subsequent suicide of a deranged Trump opponent in Minnesota, the media appear to have crossed over from merely biased and corrupt to poisonous.
Ironically, the flesh-eating partisan venom spewed by the media this election cycle – that one candidate was a fascist and would destroy democracy while laying bitter siege to the vulnerable – may have ended up killing the snake itself.
Indeed, the legacy media, having prostituted themselves politically this election in ways never seen since the dawn of the gramophone, have become the ouroboros – the mythical snake eating its own tail.
They seem to have believed they had somehow granted themselves the power to choose our rulers, to lord over the American electorate, to turn the country into a mediaocracy – that their anchor desks had been transformed into thrones, their microphones into scepters.
They were wrong. One word describes why, and encapsulates why Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States:
Interconnectivity.
Through social media, mostly through Elon Musk’s platform X, Americans were interconnected in the run-up to this election as no one before in human history. By sharing unfiltered news and views and research with each other – as well as their innermost hearts and minds – American voters went completely around the hapless, hopeless, jaundiced, jaded, lying-through-their-teeth, one-sided dinosaur media.
They went over the media’s heads to each other.
Tragically, this liberating shift in the media landscape – as tectonic as the one in the political terrain – comes too late for many who were cynically brainwashed by the media into believing Trump was another Hitler.
Unsubstantiated reports of multiple suicides have been making the rounds, as have videos of completely unhinged Kamala Harris supporters wailing at fate and, notably, at the considered decision of the electorate’s majority. They’re reportedly shaving their heads, threatening abstinence (to the horror of no one, in many cases), and writing off their Trump-supporting family and friends for the holidays and likely beyond.
Shamefully, notes the New York Post, a “Yale-affiliated psychiatrist” exhorted already troubled members of the LGBTQ+ community to shun Trump-voting loved ones this holiday season.
This is the legacy of the legacy media: fear-mongering to the point of driving people to self-harm and deadly disconnectedness.
Meanwhile, joyful Americans have found a country-saving connectedness, an unprecedented interconnectivity, on X.
Nor is it an echo chamber, as all voices – perish the thought! – have been uniquely welcome on X.
“Luckily, that free speech was where people like myself could actually critique the government,” comedian Rob Schneider said in an interview. “And that free speech is really unfettered free speech. … Let the people decide what’s the truth and what’s not the truth.”
Considering the far-left lurch of the Democrat party since the advent of Obama – the attacks on speech, on conservative and religious values, on political rivals, on childhood and womanhood and more – comparisons with the Bolsheviks of 1917 Russia may be in order.
Cuban émigrés did, in fact, tell The Heartlander before the election that they see much of their former communist overseers reflected in U.S. government and culture today.
All this makes one wonder: What might have befallen the Bolshevik revolutionaries had the Russian people been as well-informed – as interconnected – as X users were this year in America?
Perhaps the Russian people could’ve been spared decades of oppression and misery – the likes of which Americans have tasted but a morsel of these past few years.
