MAGA's View Of The United States And The World Is What Television Tells Them It Is

SO, HELLO WORLD! CAN WE TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE SINGLE MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THE TOXIC STATE OF THESE DIVIDED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TODAY? CAN WE TALK TELEVISION?...

The Tee-Vee.

The Boob Tube.

Which has turned so many Americans into total rubes over, say, the last four decades.

Now, because I KNOW so many people don’t READ, let me explain what a “rube” is:

It comes from the word Reuben, and is slang for an unsophisticated, uneducated or gullible person from a rural area.

According to Da Innanet - possibly a bigger source of our problems - it’s also used to refer to a yokel, or hick or a country bumpkin.

You’ve heard a variation of it before, where one is said to have a brain the equivalent of a ham sandwich.

Which a Reuben, by the way, is.

A sandwich.

Just meat stuck between two pieces of bread.

And it don’t. know. nothing.

But yet, y’all, the ol’ TV is where most of these types get their information from.

Places like Fox News.

NewsMax.

OAN.

And stuff.

It’s THE SOURCE of where so much of the information they receive, ingest, absorb and are infected, hypnotized and weaponized comes from.

Even though most of it is skewed, slanted and flat-out untrue.

Which is how we keep ending up with television personalities as political leaders.

As in how Conan The Barbarian - Arnold Schwarzenegger - became governor of California.

And how a college football coach - Tommy Tubervile - became a US senator.

And how, yes, Ronald Reagan AND Donald Trump, became United States presidents.

And this happened because we BELIEVE those that we see on the TV.

We ascribe special qualities - like, say, intelligence, for example - to these people.

Even if they don’t possess it.

Because the silver screen means they made it.

And that they are successful.

And that they know things we don’t.

Even when they don’t.

What’s most interesting to me is when I was a kid, there was always an adult there limiting how much TV we could watch.

Because they knew how influential it could be.

And how toxic.

And how it taught us things they did not necessarily believe in or want us to know.

But somewhere along the line something changed.

With the advent of two working parents in the household, television became a surrogate parent.

It became our teacher.

And we became its students.

And we became, well, stupid.

Because there was no longer anyone RESPONSIBLE in the house to watch what we watched - or to protect us from it.

And we began to believe things that weren’t true.

And took it as gospel.

Now, today, there are MILLIONS of people in this country, hypnotized and weaponized by television - and the messages of those who own these stations - whose view of the world comes mostly from television.

Whose sole purpose these days is to manipulate us.

Into buying things we neither want nor need.

Including political ideology.

In an instant, it affects, infects and changes our minds.

And the true meanings of things.

Which is why today people juxtapose the meanings of communism, socialism and marxism.

And use the Muslim belief as a slur.

Because, to some, it SOUNDS like a slur.

Kinda how they interpret the names of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris.

And Chyyyyyyna.

But, curiously, NOT Trump.

Which does rhyme with dump, dontchaknow?

It is the reason why many in rural areas talk about New York City as though it’s The Rotten Big Apple of the 1970s.

Which it isn’t.

And it’s the reason why they slander the name of Muslim NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist and hater of America - when in reality he is doing a great job and actually HELPING Americans.

Which Donald Trump is not doing.

Because Donald Trump is only helping himself.

And his rich friends.

And his family.

And they don’t know this for one main reason:

The television doesn’t tell them so.

But they’ll NEVER turn it off.

Or stop believing…

#michaeljameswrites