by Robert M. Traxler
The normally conservative folks who work in the intelligence agencies or who make a good living as pundits commenting on intelligence matters are currently allied with the left wing.
This is a marriage of very different people with different goals and values, so what brings them together? The need for relevance; the left in the minority in elected government across the nation, and an intelligence community stuck without a clear enemy to analyze have joined forces.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fell apart in 1992 as socialist governments always do over time, leaving the intelligence folks without their main target. In 2001, the attack by Islamic terrorists gave them a new enemy to focus on, but the Islamic threat is starting to diminish. So now we see the rebirth of the Russian threat.
The Democrat Party, normally folks who hold the intelligence cabal in disdain, have found a confederate, an ally. The common foe is the President, and some conservative Republicans; the hawks in the Senate mostly have joined the Democrats and the Intelligence folks to advance the Russian threat.
The new twist to the story is the left, the far right and the media coming together with the covert agencies in a coordinated effort to remove the legally elected President. Just how many times have we read or seen political types or commentators say things like, there is no direct evidence but, I can’t prove it but, this appears to suggest that… or how do we know this or that did not happen or is not true? The same argument could be made that we do not know for sure space aliens have not landed in Hopkins so the people in Hopkins should be on the lookout until it can be proven ET did not land.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is pervasive in the media class and the intelligence services. Candidate Trump severely criticized both self-proclaimed groups of deities during the campaign, an unpardonable sin in the minds of the elite.
Exaggeration and over-the-top rhetoric have become the norm, as opposed to the exception, in covering the Russians “stealing the election from the American people.” The intelligence folks wanted a President Clinton II they signed open letters condemning Mr. Trump and extoling the virtues of Mrs. Clinton, and they made no secret of whom they supported during the campaign.
The leaders of the establishment right, the War Hawks, also wanted a President Clinton II and they campaigned against Mr. Trump; they lost and they are infuriated that most of the Republicans went against them. In years past the news agencies would say if the far right and far left are against it, it must be the best course of action. The media is in a strange place, supporting the extreme ends of both parties. President Trump has shaken up the media deities and shown them as common mortals, warts and all, and they hate him for it.
The over-the-top hyperbole should be seen for what it is, the pure anger found in a lover scorned. The darlings in the media are out of control with hate; they have referred to most of us in Moline, Wayland, Dorr, Martin and Hopkins as ignorant, mouth breathing, traitorous, idiots and that is just for starters. The “new media” the online sources for news have rendered the network TV and print sources, those that are legends in their own minds, as obsolete as the manual typewriter.
The time has passed to calm down and stop making much to do about nothing. No one who is not unhinged with hate will believe President Trump is colluding with the Russians to steal an election and destroy our nation. The Washington/ New York/Wall-Street/Ivy League privileged few can’t accept that they lost to an outsider who is not an established member of the club.
The far left and the far right have made the policy of detente with the Russians a treasonable offense; speaking to a Russian, being in the same room with a Russian or suggesting cooperation with a Russian will put you in the cross hairs of the media and intelligence class. Joe McCarthy would be proud of them all.
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