Democracy's Demise: Identifying the 4 Gravest Existential Threats of Your Lifetime
The media's role is not to dictate what people think but rather to report, unbiasedly, both sides of a story allowing readers or viewers to reach their own conclusions.
Currently, the world is in a win-at-any-cost ideological war that presents four significant challenges: a flawed political system that could cause nuclear Armageddon, a massive financial crisis, widespread censorship, and a deceitful media that claims to promote freedoms and democratic principles but instead practices: “damn-the-truth journalistic activism" to achieve specific outcomes.
The media's false narratives are being enhanced by the establishment of ‘Ministries of Truth,’ which aim to expose dangerous' misinformation, disinformation, and wild conspiracy theories.’ But, unfortunately, these Ministries of Truth are a tool for creating mass censorship, polarization, and groupthink echo chambers that strangle the tenets of a democratic society.
The freedom to express oneself, think critically, and impact change is fundamental to human dignity and the pursuit of truth. These basic principles enable individuals to challenge authoritarianism and drive the societal transformation necessary to restore our freedoms. Unfortunately, today's woke ideological zealots are causing the chaos required to crush all opposing viewpoints and effectively undermine free speech, tolerance, or any constructive fact-based dialogue. This is not how a civil society properly functions or how democracy works.
In Boris Johnson's 2019 Tory Manifesto, he promised to explore defunding the BBC. That was a lie; Johnson earmarked that the UK Foreign Office gives the state-funded media, BBC, £20 million to fund "countering disinformation." Why would Johnson give BBC £20 million? (Here)
After Johnson’s unlawful and tyrannical COVID lockdowns, why would taxpayers support an even more biased and suppressive BBC? Accordingly, most would have opposed giving the biased BBC £20 million to fund the creation of a dystopian "surveillance state," yet, BBC Verify was been created anyway. The front 'propagandist' behind BBC Verify is a twenty-something character named Marianna Spring.
Spring is touted as a 'leading expert on disinformation.' Yet, BBC never discloses the legal definition of disinformation. Why? Because no legal definition exists.
In BBC Verify’s promotional video, Spring admitted to participating in potentially unlawful activities, which included purposefully violating social media companies’ Terms Of Service by falsifying profiles. Spring used fake profiles on social media to spy, entrap, and gaslight an unsuspecting public.
Who else benefits from £20 Million Johnson gave to the BBC? Nina Jankowicz and her UK-based global ‘disinformation business.’ Jankowicz was Joe Biden's Mary Poppins of disinformation, hired and fired by the USA's Department of Homeland Security, Nina Jankowicz (here). These two clown-car stooges unmask authoritarianism as they seek to establish a ‘language police.’ They deem themselves experts in an imaginary, subjective, and make-believe field they call “disinformation.” Their propagandistic endeavors of creating "Ministries of Truths" would make George Orwell blush, as the ideals Orwell warned against seem to have become Spring and Janowicz's version of reality.
Where is the politically biased organization, also known as OFCOM, on providing a legal definition of disinformation? That's the same OFCOM that did NOTHING when pedophile Jimmy Savile, of Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It fame at the BBC, molested as many as 500 children with impunity for decades. What did OFCOM do when BBC Boss Mark Thompson spiked the Panorama story exposing Savile? OFCOM did nothing. Was Thompson sacked? No, Thompson was promoted to earn the big bucks, in New York, as a senior boss at the dishonest New York Times. Would I trust the BBC or OFCOM? Not a chance.
Despite the worst cost of living and immigration crisis in history, politicians are pushing policies that will cause a nuclear conflict with Russia that the West cannot win. While this happens in the most corrupt country in Europe, Ukrainian criminals and corrupt politicians worldwide continue pilfering billions from public coffers. There are no winners in this war that could have been avoided. The greedy, corrupt politicians, arms dealers, and the military-industrial complex will profit from the death of 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Sadly, our media has failed to address or provide a balanced perspective on our most serious problems, like our involvement in Ukraine. Instead, political activists within the press divert, pivot, and spin politically biased agendas, prioritizing specific issues while neglecting others. Mainstream media present themselves as guardians of the people, but their actions resemble those of enemies, aiming to divide the public. The media's role is not to dictate what people think but rather to report, unbiasedly, both sides of a story and allow the reader or viewer to reach their own conclusions.
Education has become indoctrination. The days of journalists reporting objective facts have passed. (Here) At an eyewatering cost of $80,000 annually, entitled children may attend Ivy League schools where they are molly-coddled and given ‘new realities.’ These include an agenda that makes ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) major corporate priorities. The ESG and DEI trend incorporates the argument between shareholder and stakeholder capitalism. In essence, enrich the shareholders by expanding and growing the company or do what a shrieking minority of stakeholders demand even if it destroys the value of the company. Budweiser Light is a powerful, $10 Billion dollar example of stakeholder capitalism gone very wrong.
A Harvard/Wharton business school grad, boasted, "I'm a businesswoman; I have a mandate. The brand was in decline for a long time; evolve and elevate, shift the tone, inclusivity... dump the Fratty, out of touch humor' blah blah (Here). Alissa Heinerscheid's arrogance was extraordinary. It me be argued that Heinerscheid's take that - "Bud-light was a brand in decline” because it was “Fratty" or "out of touch" was simply wrong. Her perspective was subjective, not an objective reality. Sales declined because competition increased with the birth of massive numbers of new craft micro-breweries worldwide.
The Bud-light boycotts signal a decisive turning point in “peak wokedom.” Finally, the silent majority is awake, rejecting virtue signaling and identity politics as intolerable. The evidence: Anheuser-Busch has lost $10 billion in market cap, and the trend continues downward.
Lessons learned Après Bud-light.: Get woke, go broke! Bud-lights 'pathetic damage control spin' is too little too late. Conservatives have awoken to the fact money talks, and when corporates push wokeness, money walks. Businesses must focus on providing quality goods, services, and entertainment rather than indulging in identity politics, moralizing, and virtue signaling. The silent majority are done walking on eggshells while corporates force-feed ideologies down their throats. Collectively, we have the power to change the world. But we need to oppose this ideological war aggressively. Bud-light was a $10 Billion and counting lesson that: boycotts work!
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