Nearly half of Americans think Trump colluded with Russia, despite the Mueller report’s findings, according to a @Reuters/Ipsos poll https://t.co/B3STKPh5oe pic.twitter.com/PKQulLSMjE
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 26, 2019
According to this poll taken after the Department of Justice released a synopsis of Mueller’s investigation, 48% of Americans surveyed still believe that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election. Only 49% don’t think President Trump should be impeached.
What can we conclude from this clear example of public insanity?
It proves that the media — in today’s unified form — have such extraordinary influence over public opinion that they successfully foisted a complete hoax upon a great part of the American people to the detriment of our country. This leads to two important questions that we need to consider going forward.
First, can we have any kind of “democratic” form of government when the people that are voting are so greatly misinformed that they are placing their votes based on false information, lies, and ignorance? How does that system work, exactly? The problem with universal suffrage is that we don’t have universal high intelligence and universal highly-informed knowledge. What we really have is a lot of ignorance out there and a lot of people who allow themselves to be manipulated by a relative handful of cretins in the media and entertainment industries. People want the right to vote but they don’t want to take the responsibility to inform themselves. (And the lower the average IQ of the United States becomes — and believe me, it’s dropping rapidly due to immigration — the more this weakness will be exploited.)
Second, this two-year episode makes it clear that all sane-minded people need to come together and demand that our legislators implement common sense media control. Just as we all know that the Second Amendment doesn’t allow any random individual to have a nuclear weapon in his basement, likewise the First Amendment is not a carte blanche for media companies to destroy the nation with a coordinated campaign designed to misinform the public. The intention of the First Amendment is to allow for the free exchange of ideas and information with the purpose of informing each other with the truth for the end goal of promoting the common good. Lying for two years about a Russian collusion hoax is nothing more than shouting fire in a crowded theater but on a grand scale.
There has to be real accountability here. And if the government isn’t going to take legal action, then the American people should resort to turning off their televisions and canceling their cable and newspaper subscriptions. Let these lying scoundrels lose their jobs and live in a cardboard box where their cancerous malice can be contained.