Language is the key to public perceptions. According to Tea Party Tribune blogger Mr. Curmudgeon, the President of the United States, as evidenced by his initial statement following the Boston Marathon bombing, is fostering illusions for his own purposes.
President Obama is at war; not with terrorism but
the average American’s perception of reality. Using the royal “We,” Obama
insists federal, state and local police agencies are the sole and relentless
gatherers of “facts.” That criminal courts, not the thinking public, are
exclusively suited to discern these facts and render non-conclusion-jumping
judgments, using their supernatural ability to divine the “motivations of these
[jihadist] individuals.”
Obama’s assumption, then, is that truth is the sole
domain of Washington’s ruling class, disseminated by the high, holy councils of
authority to the unwashed masses below.
Terrorism, government-run health care, high
unemployment, a contracting economy and the erosion of individual liberty, say
the president and his supporters, are simple matters of perception … their
perception. Those whose thinking deviates from the authoritarian hold of
officially sanctioned reality are considered dangerous and outside the
mainstream – extremists even.
Read more. --Posted on Tea Party Unity on April 25, 2013
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