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MEDIA MANIPULATION If you only watched MSNBC or CNN, you would come away believing the worst human being on the planet is Donald J Trump and anyone who voted for him is every bit as bad or worse. Keeping in mind, we are talking about half of the country, you'd have to think are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, bigots. Half of all Americans. In other words, when Hillary Clinton referred to "half of all Trump supporters in a basket of deplorables", if that resonated with you, you're not tethered to reality and here's why. The same country just elected and re-elected America's first non-white President. Millions of people who voted for Obama, also voted for Trump. When did they become racists? Were they racist when they voted for Obama twice? Did they become racist by voting for Trump? How does that math work? Is the country only post-racial only when it elects a non-white Democrat? Is America doomed to never be post-racial? When non-white Democrats lose elections, is the reason always racism by default? Half of America isn't racist. Nor are half of Trump's supporters racist. The LEFT, which tribalizes the country along lines of race, class and gender, is where this bigotry is primarily sourced. They are the ones balkanizing the country. Not conservatives. Not Republicans. Not independents. Trump is not a militant. Demanding stricter border enforcement is not a militant idea. Expecting the media to treat him better is something he has in common with ALL of his predecessors in office, including the most recent one who was beloved by nearly the entire media. Obama never received the kind of criticism Trump gets all the time. Even when Trump exercises his clearly defined Constitutional duties, Trump is criticized, whereas Obama violated those Constitutional guardrails regularly and the media either whitewashed it or ignored it entirely. Presidents should expect to be criticized. Nothing but criticism is nothing but advocacy. What happens to a person who subjects themselves to a constant barrage of media propaganda designed to assassinate the character of President Trump? What happens when you are told every day that the President of your country: is a tyrant a law unto himself a dictator just like a racist a sexist a homophobe a xenophobe a white supremacist a Nazi. What happens to a person when they are CONSTANTLY told, "You must hate this President in order for you to be a good American." What happens when you are told consistently that you must confront people who differ from you politically? Even physically confront them? What is the proper response of people who are convinced they need to fight a President and his followers who are "just like Hitler and the Nazis"? Because that is the message being sent every day, all day on CNN and MSNBC. When you tell people they may only talk a certain way, and then tell them they may only think a certain way, is it any surprise that those people will also be instructed there is only a certain way to behave. It would have to affect your thinking. Constant repetition of the lie is how you grow to believe it. Isn't that what Joseph Goebbels told Hitler? And didn't Saul Alinsky tell all of his followers to accuse the opponent of the very thing you are doing. That's happening here, too. If you really, truly believed the media agiprop that Trump is a maniacal, traitorous, white supremacist dictator with genocidal impulses ala Adolph Hitler, would an extreme response to that be altogether unwarranted? If all you watched was CNN or MSNBC, you might just pick up an SKS rifle, head to a baseball practice and try to murder 20 Republican Congressmen and their staffs as a Rachel Maddow admirer did named James Hodgkinson. Through their own militancy, CNN and MSNBC have demanded and have gotten the most predictable and logical response to their hyperbolic rhetoric: physical assaults against Trump, his family, administration officials, conservative media figures and their families, as well as the President's supporters. CNN and MSNBC have thus far been reflexively protected from the Trump Administration's harsh reaction to the conduct of CNN and MSNBC's "journalists". It's understandable. The press needs to be independent of government influence and control. But the media bears responsibility, too. When impartiality leads to partisanship, then advocacy and ultimately militant opposition and subversion, we are no longer talking about a news media outlet, but a political organization using the patina of a free and independent press to cloak its biases.