Can we talk? Because if we can’t, it will get a lot worse.
Take any major issue you are worried about—climate change, abortion, virus policy, mass shootings—and step back for a minute.
There’s the problem itself and then there’s the way we solve it. We think about the issue and then we talk about it. We exchange ideas. We debate. We confer. We write big “open letters” to the public. We even ridicule bad solutions, because ridicule really only works if it rings true.
Remain silent. Establish a “Ministry of Truth.” Declare government-paid experts the final word on the matter. We do not follow the “science” that is mouthed to us, via teleprompter, by the local network news babe. We learn the truth by watching smart people disagree.
I am embarrassed I have to repeat this, but I’m going to use an example most of you should have seen coming years ago: white nationalism.
Frankly, when the far-Left began calling Tucker Carlson a “white nationalist” years ago, I guffawed. You may detest Tucker’s politics, but I defy you to find any hint of anything amid the vast video archive of Tucker-speak remotely like “white nationalism.” What would that even be? A call for a return to “white” values or “white” ideology or “white” identity? Keep looking. It does not exist, and you know it.
And this is why I like Tucker. He calls it like he sees it and offers no apologies. Talking, debating and acknowledging fact from fiction. He doesn’t care what the left calls him – he is a patriot.
MAGA
In my opinion, he’s willing to hurt people for money. He stirs up hatred to build his audIence and sell ads. Simple nonsense for simple people. Probably a “sma