There is a systematic dismantlement going on in America. It is not our infrastructure, our politics or our morals. It is in our basic judiciary, our justice system, in our beliefs. With this new found voice that the common person has found online, a step back in our social evolution is taking place. On every page and with every keystroke the entirety of our existence is being argued about, heralded and flat out lied about. That is the freedom we have in this country, we get to lie with impunity, we get to pull things like a Stretch Armstrong to make our points, make us right, make us feel justified.
No matter what your thoughts are about the guilt or innocence of Bill Cosby and the allegations against him, this is true. The man has not been convicted, the man has not been tried by a jury of his peers, this dismantling of the person has been done by the media and social media alone. That much is very clear to me when I take everything else off of the table. The same thing is happening and has been happening to Hilary Clinton as well. There are allegations, there are bits of this and bits of that and a whole bunch of we don't know... it's secret. Yet in the media and social media, online and in print, this woman is already a convicted criminal, justice be damned.
Oh! I can hear the roars of she did this and she did that, she put us at risk and she is not to be trusted. Baloney! Just like in the Cosby case, the reality and the created are two completely separate things. That mish mash of opinion and fact getting all too cloudy for the general voter. It must all be true...
People want to blame the "Establishment" for all of these perceived faults and issues never realizing it is their issue in all reality. Their inability to sift through this brain fog of misinformation to find that lighthouse of truth is the cause. Their inability to accept that they may be wrong or have looked at it from the wrong person's opinion piece all too much for them to accept. Instead of it being a bunch of smaller problems, it must be the big problem, it must be government itself. Again, Baloney! It is simply a massive failure of the general public to simply look in the mirror, you have created and are raising this bastard child, do something about it! Both of you! All of you! All of US.
Those same people that condemn this woman running for the highest office in the land. Those same folks that believe they have it all figured out - don't. This whole trash heap of crap against Clinton is all based on a Benghazi committee that has not found anything credible, was discredited by its own actions and was paid for by the taxpayers. This snoop into all things about her last job performance has resulted in this, millions of dollars for the RNC anti Clinton machine. The American public have been paying the cost of the GOP presidential campaign for years. How do those "conservatives" like that kind of cookie for their milk?
Though just like Cosby and just like this Clinton stuff, it doesn't matter where your beliefs fall on. The very fact that we are, as a people, willing and able to take down and seemingly destroy the personalities that have been deemed unworthy, now that should trouble you. Lofty and powerful people with a lifetime of work being brought down by the "beliefs" of a few, the accusers, and the actions of the willfully ignorant. In both cases we will certainly never know the reality of them because of this systematic new American Judiciary. Yet we willfully go about it, we will do it to anyone of note, even the most recent guy on YouTube gets vetted these days.
When it comes to judging people, and the events of the day, let us not forget our mirrors. We have a legal system in place in this country that pertains to everyone. When we roll the vigilante tapes that are inherent to our natures things don't always come out looking straight. When we judge those on accusations and bit and pieces of misinformation and simply troubled logic, we become the guilty. As we have seen many many times in the past and between the pages of every mystery novel out there, it really is rarely what it seems. In this new judiciary where even the most powerful people in the world are not safe from frivolous and serious accusations, how will you ever be?
No matter what your thoughts are about the guilt or innocence of Bill Cosby and the allegations against him, this is true. The man has not been convicted, the man has not been tried by a jury of his peers, this dismantling of the person has been done by the media and social media alone. That much is very clear to me when I take everything else off of the table. The same thing is happening and has been happening to Hilary Clinton as well. There are allegations, there are bits of this and bits of that and a whole bunch of we don't know... it's secret. Yet in the media and social media, online and in print, this woman is already a convicted criminal, justice be damned.
Oh! I can hear the roars of she did this and she did that, she put us at risk and she is not to be trusted. Baloney! Just like in the Cosby case, the reality and the created are two completely separate things. That mish mash of opinion and fact getting all too cloudy for the general voter. It must all be true...
People want to blame the "Establishment" for all of these perceived faults and issues never realizing it is their issue in all reality. Their inability to sift through this brain fog of misinformation to find that lighthouse of truth is the cause. Their inability to accept that they may be wrong or have looked at it from the wrong person's opinion piece all too much for them to accept. Instead of it being a bunch of smaller problems, it must be the big problem, it must be government itself. Again, Baloney! It is simply a massive failure of the general public to simply look in the mirror, you have created and are raising this bastard child, do something about it! Both of you! All of you! All of US.
Those same people that condemn this woman running for the highest office in the land. Those same folks that believe they have it all figured out - don't. This whole trash heap of crap against Clinton is all based on a Benghazi committee that has not found anything credible, was discredited by its own actions and was paid for by the taxpayers. This snoop into all things about her last job performance has resulted in this, millions of dollars for the RNC anti Clinton machine. The American public have been paying the cost of the GOP presidential campaign for years. How do those "conservatives" like that kind of cookie for their milk?
Though just like Cosby and just like this Clinton stuff, it doesn't matter where your beliefs fall on. The very fact that we are, as a people, willing and able to take down and seemingly destroy the personalities that have been deemed unworthy, now that should trouble you. Lofty and powerful people with a lifetime of work being brought down by the "beliefs" of a few, the accusers, and the actions of the willfully ignorant. In both cases we will certainly never know the reality of them because of this systematic new American Judiciary. Yet we willfully go about it, we will do it to anyone of note, even the most recent guy on YouTube gets vetted these days.
When it comes to judging people, and the events of the day, let us not forget our mirrors. We have a legal system in place in this country that pertains to everyone. When we roll the vigilante tapes that are inherent to our natures things don't always come out looking straight. When we judge those on accusations and bit and pieces of misinformation and simply troubled logic, we become the guilty. As we have seen many many times in the past and between the pages of every mystery novel out there, it really is rarely what it seems. In this new judiciary where even the most powerful people in the world are not safe from frivolous and serious accusations, how will you ever be?
This is right on the nose. People will cling to whatever narrative fits their favorite bias.
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