RUSSIAGATE : THE DEMS HAVE FOUND THEIR SHOCK JOCK ISSUE

If you were alive in the Eighties & Nineties you will know what a ‘Shock Jock’ was.

They say the Devil has all the best tunes and in those days they were played exclusively by extremist Republicans.

But no longer.

The Dems found their issue and now they have their own array of shock jocks all playing the same tune, ‘Russian Interference’.

I must say it’s a clever tactic. I am of the left and in the Eighties and Nineties when I heard the ranting from the right through those shock jocks I pitied the Dems who seemed so boring and quiet by comparison.

The Republican shock jocks ranted and raved in strident voices that bordered on the hysterical about all the threats they saw everywhere. They had impact. They touched raw nerves with their hyperbole, they were impossible to ignore because they always seemed to have some incredible danger to reveal, a warning that it was imperative you listen to.

Meanwhile the Democrats spoke earnestly (and by comparison boringly) about near reality, the issues of the day in the hope that their reasoned analyses would win the day against the continual shouting about imminent danger from the jocks.

Now the Dems have something they can use to raise the alarm, ubiquitous Russian influence that lies behind every problematic and divisive issue the USA has. All they need do is take something Trump says or has said and say this is what ‘The Russians’ want. And they don’t need to say what evidence they have for that. It is taken as a given. If they wish to back it up they simply say the intelligence agencies say it’s so. For them it is irrelevant and counter-productive to consider that they never show any proof and only ever use variations on the themes of ‘we think’, ‘it seems likely’ and ‘probably’. And of course there is no inclination to consider that there is every incentive for the intelligence agencies to push this narrative to bolster themselves and any anti-Trump agenda their staffers may have (as seen in the Flynn case).

The main thing for the Dems is that they have something to shout about, to stridently warn about, to instill fear about and generate the kind of consensus concerning a Donald Trump that they are in complete mental derangement about.

There is no evidence of Putin or the Russian state doing anything to America’s detriment. None. Not a shred. It is ALL speculation, people with a vested interest surmising this and that, usually working back from their conclusions arrived at without aid of evidence.

No doubt some of the more rabid Dem shock jockers are totally convinced that every problem America has is made much worse by Russians emphasizing them... but can we use our eyes and ears... where’s the EVIDENCE for this?  Okay, they can state emphatically it is taking place, just as those right-wing jocks in the Eighties and Nineties did and it is having the same effect. But people should start to question them about it and start asking them for some hard evidence for their outrageous claims. How that can be done with corporate media in the USA totally fixed in its narratives unwilling EVER to question them makes doing that almost impossible.

The level of conditioning in the United States through its mass media has now reached an absolute peak. Wild theories can be passed off as news without question. Assertions of ‘The Russians’ being behind every problem are stated as fact with no possible comeback allowed, anyone who tries that will be blasted with lip-curled disbelief and never, ever allowed back. The reality is such people are never allowed anywhere NEAR a CNN or MSNBC studio.

The fixed beliefs, the certainty based on virtually nothing is repeated endlessly and NEVER challenged.

The Dems have “risen” to the level of Republican screams of “Danger!” and so have achieved parity. They are no longer the sighing intellectuals simply reiterating their logical narratives... they have joined the carnival barkers and snake oil salesmen with their very own alarm bell narrative, “The Russians are behind everything trying to destroy all we hold dear!!!” with not a shred of real evidence to show.

But they have a cause they can rant and rave about and mold public opinion to their advantage via, they can push it and push it, assert any claim they want, just like the deranged extremists they used to sneer and laugh at.

The Dems have found their issue and through it their shock jock voice. Do they care they are creating a sink pit of fakery through it? Not a bit. Who cares if there’s a nuclear war, they found their voice and that’s all that matters.