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jimnyc
11-03-2019, 01:01 PM
Funny, I've been saying this too. That's the reason for not having a vote, to control the narrative. They want to stretch things out as long as possible, to control the narrative for the upcoming election. It's always been about them controlling the MSM narrative and political narrative, and then now controlling opponents.

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Democrats Want to Limit Free Speech, Regain an Iron Grip on 'The Narrative'

Twitter has caved to the pressure from the left and announced that it will no longer run political advertisements, including any for candidates running for president in 2020. That’s because Democrats view free speech as a threat and want to regain their iron grip over “The Narrative.”

After Donald Trump’s historic victory in the 2016 presidential election, liberals embraced all sorts of conspiracy theories to explain how Hillary Clinton lost an election that virtually everyone expected her to win. Unable to accept the election results as a repudiation of their corrupt candidate and the Democrat Party’s legacy of failed policies, they insisted that the Trump campaign must have cheated.

They ultimately settled on “collusion with Russia” as their hoax of choice, but even after spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on a two-and-a-half year investigation into that “#resistance” fantasy, the best that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of Democrat lawyers could come up with was evidence that a handful of Russians had posted some memes on Facebook — which didn’t stop Democrats from going apoplectic over the supposedly grave threat to our democracy posed by the online sharing of photos with humorous captions.

Apart from exonerating President Trump of the scurrilous allegations leveled against him by vindictive Democrats, the main takeaway from Mueller’s investigation was that Democrats are extremely concerned about the power of social media to circumvent the standard media channels they control. Legacy media outlets such as CNN and The New York Times are vital to the Democrats’ political power, using their influence to create an “echo chamber” in support of liberal viewpoints.

Rest - https://townhall.com/columnists/bradparscale/2019/11/01/democrats-want-to-limit-free-speech-regain-an-iron-grip-on-the-narrative-n2555740

Drummond
11-04-2019, 10:57 AM
Funny, I've been saying this too. That's the reason for not having a vote, to control the narrative. They want to stretch things out as long as possible, to control the narrative for the upcoming election. It's always been about them controlling the MSM narrative and political narrative, and then now controlling opponents.

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Democrats Want to Limit Free Speech, Regain an Iron Grip on 'The Narrative'

Twitter has caved to the pressure from the left and announced that it will no longer run political advertisements, including any for candidates running for president in 2020. That’s because Democrats view free speech as a threat and want to regain their iron grip over “The Narrative.”

After Donald Trump’s historic victory in the 2016 presidential election, liberals embraced all sorts of conspiracy theories to explain how Hillary Clinton lost an election that virtually everyone expected her to win. Unable to accept the election results as a repudiation of their corrupt candidate and the Democrat Party’s legacy of failed policies, they insisted that the Trump campaign must have cheated.

They ultimately settled on “collusion with Russia” as their hoax of choice, but even after spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on a two-and-a-half year investigation into that “#resistance” fantasy, the best that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of Democrat lawyers could come up with was evidence that a handful of Russians had posted some memes on Facebook — which didn’t stop Democrats from going apoplectic over the supposedly grave threat to our democracy posed by the online sharing of photos with humorous captions.

Apart from exonerating President Trump of the scurrilous allegations leveled against him by vindictive Democrats, the main takeaway from Mueller’s investigation was that Democrats are extremely concerned about the power of social media to circumvent the standard media channels they control. Legacy media outlets such as CNN and The New York Times are vital to the Democrats’ political power, using their influence to create an “echo chamber” in support of liberal viewpoints.

Rest - https://townhall.com/columnists/bradparscale/2019/11/01/democrats-want-to-limit-free-speech-regain-an-iron-grip-on-the-narrative-n2555740

Nothing in the opening post is any surprise to me. This is the Left, acting typically. With only minor variations of method, the overall methodology of the Left is the same, the world over.

Control speech. Control the media. Control attitudes, through propaganda and a dripfeeding effect of pronouncements as to what is 'good' or 'not good' to think, feel, accept.

It's all the same, on my side of the Pond, or yours. The answer to it is an acute awareness of the process, enabling the proper resistance to it. With that achieved on a widespread level, the Left's ability to make progress is stunted at 'worst', negated entirely at 'best'.

Of course, what would be ideal is social rejection of Left wing sensibilities to such an extent that it was universally reviled ... such as 'National Socialism' (chief proponent: a moustachioed nutter called Adolf Hitler) is, today.

... Well, I can dream .....