34 felony convictions is a good start…
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, Sept. 14, 2024 – One of President Biden’s last gaffes in office was to refer to a segment of the American population as “illegals.” Whereas it was quickly excused as a slip of the tongue, in truth, it was proof of the grave harm that pop media already has done.
Mr. Biden merely was repeating what he had heard a million times via pop media, a leviathan grown from the embryo of radio.
Now, unless Vice President Harris challenges her trial- and sentence-awaiting opponent, every day, on his pledge to deport “illegals,” we may may be witnessing the gravest failure of political imagination since Bill Clinton couldn’t think of what “is” means.
One hundred years ago, radio and rallies carried the liar Hitler to power, which ultimately brought hell to earth. TV+radio+Facebook+rallies carried the liar Trump to power eight years ago, and brought hell to the Capitol four years later.
The people, in their wisdom, pardoned Clinton, even as he enriched himself with the Trumpian sale of pardons on his way out of office. Will the people pardon Trump, too, and re-empower him? Or will, we, the people, at long last, mute the noise and do the right thing?
Please keep in mind that when Hitler launched his campaign, with the beer hall putsch of 1923, Germany was better educated and more religious than any country in the world. Thank God he had neither TV, nor its idiot spawn, social media, in his arsenal.
[Published as a letter to the editor of the Berkshire Eagle, Sept. 17, 2024]