The Greatest
Hysteria in American History
Dennis Prager|
Posted: Jul 24, 2018 12:01 AM
You and I are living through the greatest mass hysteria
in American history. For many Americans, the McCarthy era held that dubious
distinction, but what is happening now is incomparably worse.
For one thing, any hysteria that existed then was
directed against the greatest evil in the world at the time: communism.
Then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee
notwithstanding, there really were Americans in important positions who supported
communist regimes enslaving their populations and committing mass murder.
McCarthy was on
to something.
In contrast, the country is choking on hysteria over the
extremely unlikely possibility -- for which there is still no evidence -- that
Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the
2016 presidential election, and the absurdity that President Trump works for Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
Former communist, Obama operative and CIA Director John
Brennan tweeted: "Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki
rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It
was nothing short of treasonous."
The constant invoking of the Holocaust, the Nazis and now
Kristallnacht (the unofficial beginning of the Holocaust, a night in 1938 when
German Jews were beaten to death, synagogues were burned and Jewish shops were
destroyed) only minimizes the evils of Nazism and the Holocaust. A young
American who, having gone to a typical university, probably knows nothing about
the Nazis and the Holocaust will now think Nazism and the Holocaust were
20th-century expressions of Trump and American conservatism.
All this hysteria is built on next to nothing. At its
core, it is an attempt to undo the 2016 election. The mainstream media refuse
to accept that Hillary Clinton lost. They said she would win -- handily. They
predicted a landslide. How could they have possibly gotten it so wrong? Their
answer is they didn't; Trump and Putin stole it.
If truth mattered to the media, their ongoing narrative
would be: "Democrats and the left still do not accept Trump victory."
If truth mattered to the media, every American would know
Trump has been harder on Russia than former President Barack Obama was. Every
American would be reminded that Obama reassured Putin's right-hand man, then-Russian
President Dmitri Medvedev, that he wouldn't be too tough on Russia. Thinking
his mic was off, he whispered into Medvedev's ear: "This is my last
election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
If truth mattered to the media, every American would be
reminded that Obama sent Army meals to Ukraine and Trump has sent anti-tank
missiles and other arms to repel the Russians.
If truth mattered to the media, every American would be
reminded that Obama watched Syria burn and Russia come to dominate that
country, while Trump has bombed Syrian military installations, including one
where Russians were killed.
If truth mattered to the media, every American would be
reminded that it is Trump who has weakened Russia's ally Iran, while Obama
immeasurably strengthened it.
Instead the media scream "treason,"
"impeachment" and the like 24/7; Hollywood stars curse the president;
others curse his daughter or the first lady (one of the most regal in American
history) and show President Trump in various death poses. Meanwhile, leftist
mobs shout at administration officials and Republican members of Congress while
they eat in restaurants, shop in stores and sleep in their homes.
If you vote Democrat this November, you are voting for
hysteria, lies, socialism and even the cheapening of the Holocaust.
But more than anything, a vote for Democrats in November
is a vote for hysteria -- the greatest and darkest in American history.
For another, the mainstream media did not support
McCarthy. Most in the media were highly critical of McCarthy. Today, the
mainstream media are not the voices of caution. They are the creators of the
hysteria. There have been conspiracy theories throughout American history (e.g.
Lee Harvey Oswald didn't kill President John F. Kennedy alone; the moon landing
never happened). But this is the first time the media have created and promoted
a conspiracy. Not surprisingly, they have dropped any pretense of objective
reporting in the process.
And while some Americans were unfairly labeled communists
during the McCarthy era, countless Democratic politicians and leaders in news
and entertainment have called members of the Trump administration and the tens
of millions of Americans who support the president fascists, white
supremacists, haters, xenophobes and even Nazis.
MSNBC contributor Jill Wine-Banks said of the Trump-Putin
Helsinki press conference: "It's just as serious to me as the Cuban
Missile Crisis in terms of an attack, or the 9/11 attack. ... (Trump's)
performance today will live in infamy as much as the Pearl Harbor attack or
Kristallnacht."
Obama open mic slip: 'After my election I have more
flexibility'
RT
Published on Mar 27, 2012
On Monday while President
Obama was taking part in a global nuclear security summit in South Korea, he
was caught on tape asking for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for
"space." "This is my last election. After my election I have
more flexibility," Obama implored. Obama assured the departing Russian
President he will have the "flexibility" required to deal with
missile defense issues after the 2012 presidential election.
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