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| The Chinese government officially says this 1989 moment broadcast by CNN and the world over never happened. Is that merely a use of alternative facts? |
The protests that reportedly involved more than 100,000 people and gave us the iconic image of the man single-handedly standing in the path of a tank?
“PICTURES
LIE,” IS what we were told by government officials. The whole tale of people speaking
out against their government was just a plot by people who couldn’t accept the
wisdom and the success of the Communist movement in China.
It’s
laughable. It’s ridiculous and absurd.
Yet
it also is what I couldn’t help but think of when we went through the weekend
ordeal of being told that Donald J. Trump’s inaugural ceremonies were witnessed
by more people live and on television than those of any other president in our
nation’s history.
And
when people tried to point out the absurdity of such statements, we were told
by Trump mouthpiece Kellyanne Conway about the concept of “alternative facts”
that will be her political legacy.
CONWAY
IS THE one who showed us just how much she, and many of the Trump types who
back her, have a touch of Chinese Communist in them. Or perhaps Russian
authoritarianism and an appreciation for the strong-arm mentality.
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| Trump, from 'You're Fired!'... |
That
may be the reason they feel so at home with the people who run what once was
the Soviet Union – which may have given up Communism but certainly still
appreciates the approach of telling people when to shut up and do what their
told.
Which
is so much of what the Trump-type of voters appreciate – the idea of a boss who
bellows “You’re Fired!” or barks out other orders, and expects them to be
followed.
Now
personally, I don’t care how many people actually showed up on the National
Mall in Washington on Friday to see Trump take the oath of office.
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| ... to "alternative facts" |
THERE
MAY BE a point to those people who look at the aerial photographs that compared
Trump to the Barack Obama inaugural of 2009 and see that certain areas were
blocked out, thereby spreading the crowd out thinner for the Trump event.
Personally,
I think it’s mere trivia to worry about an exact figure of how many showed up –
just like those people who forever argue against the Million Man March of 1995
by saying there weren’t one million people present on the very same National
Mall.
Citing
deceptive photographs literally comes down to adopting the Chinese strategy – which
is one that no serious person on Planet Earth finds believable.
Just
like the concept of “alternative facts,” which apparently is the ideologue response
to the concept of “fake news.” Which shouldn’t be a surprise – since the
ideologues have made it more and more clear that they’re not interested in
hearing anything that contradicts the way they want to view the world.
AS
FAR AS they’re concerned, they’re the ones engaging in truth as it should be,
and it’s everybody else who’s telling stinkin’ lies – particularly those people
who keep harping on Trump opposition or the 65 million who voted for Hillary
Clinton, or a few million more who backed alternative candidates.
The
fact that only 46 percent of the electorate wanted Trump to be president? That
ignores the reality that many of those people who cast ballots against Trump
are just ignorant, or had no business voting at all.
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| CONWAY: Alternative fashion? |
A majority of the people who actually matter, as the Trump-ites view it, are totally satisfied with the electoral outcome and are looking forward to the coming weeks, months and years in which the real estate developer with the overbloated ego rams his thoughts down the throats of the American people. All for our own good because the 46 percent inherently know what is best for everybody.
Which
sounds like a very authoritarian approach of governing to me! Even if Conway
tries to justify it as “alternative facts,” which is a concept even more
laughable than that outfit she wore for the inaugural speech.
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