In a matter of days, the United States will swear in a new leader, the 47th President of the United States. Of course, this also means another presidential term will thankfully shuffle awkwardly off the stage, probably in the opposite direction of the door.
I have never been more relieved the current president’s term is over. The last four years, historically speaking, have been an unmitigated disaster. Afghanistan, out-of-control inflation that everyone but the wealthy would understand, gas prices are down, DEI, a Ministry of Truth–I mean a Department of Misinformation, pressuring social media companies to censor points-of-view, lawfare, the border is closed, there is no mental decline, and the making of the nation’s crack intelligence agencies look more like the Keystone Cops.
Most of all, his administration absolutely and completely destroyed trust in the institution of the federal government. To borrow from a tired, old joke: how do you know when the federal government is lying? Their lips are moving.
The White House and their faithful messengers, the media, was all about maintaining the narrative. We were told that everything’s fine—there’s nothing to see here. All the bad things you see is all in your head. It’s the fastest growing economy in history. You just can’t see it.
Truth didn’t matter, only the narrative. The narrative was god. The narrative must be defended at all costs. Loyalty to the narrative was all that was to be worshipped.
I am not saying that the incoming president will be this bastion of truth. He is human. I pray he doesn’t take on the tactic of making a narrative.
The left seems unwilling to let the idea of narrative go. CNN’s Jim Acosta insisted “the press is not the enemy of the people.
The press is the defender of the people.” Ideally, yes. In reality, no. They lied, spun, and covered up the truth. Personally, it will be a long time before I trust anything they say.
During Biden’s farewell address last night, he threw another possible narrative against the wall hoping it might stick: the country will led by billionaire oligarch. Today, on nearly every news outlet, journalists echoed that their biggest fear was the nation being ruled by billionaire oligarchs. (Never mind the fact that day before Biden awarded thr Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros, a billionaire whose only action was donating millions to liberal causes and candidates.)
Given the public trust in the media, I highly doubt it will stick.
This whole idea of narrative-as-truth has got to be thrown out onto the ash heap of bad ideas.
I am so thankful the American people made the statement on the narrative of the last four years. I am thankful we have seen the truth the narrative worked so hard to hide.
I honestly don’t know what the future will bring. My main prayer is that America can breathe a brief sigh of relief that the narrative of the last four years.
Perhaps (?) normalcy might return.
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