"Even though I knew the corporate media leaned left and had an agenda, I simply could not fathom that they would straight-up lie and fabricate." HKG
"The way Donald Trump and J.D. Vance talked to the media on the campaign trail was one of the reasons a lot of people eventually turned away from the Democrats and into the arms of MAGA. I am one of them.
"About 10 years ago, I started noticing the ever-expanding delta between what I saw with my own two eyes as reality and what the media presented. There is a 2016 standup bit by Dave Chappelle that captured this chasm beautifully. In it, Chappelle recalls the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton in which Trump said, “The whole system is rigged!” and everybody on the stage who was a beneficiary of the system calmly responded, “No, it’s not,” yet Chappelle thought: “Now wait a minute, it’s what HE said!”
"The cognitive dissonance we’ve lived through over the last several years cannot be overstated. When the regime keeps telling us we must acquiesce and join the chants that men can be women, that it’s a noble idea to defund and kneecap the very people who exist to protect us, or that we must put face masks on toddlers, the thought incongruence is harder and harder to reconcile. This must be the “lived experience” for many Democrats too, whether they admit it or not.
"I am very familiar with such a duality. I grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia and was taught from the time I could remember that there were things we discussed at home that we absolutely could not share at school. From as young as kindergarten, I knew I couldn’t mention anything about my relatives who defected to the West. I knew I could not speak about the books my parents read or that I knew the word “samizdat.” I knew I could not reveal, not even to my friends, that my family would crouch around a small black transistor radio on the weekends at our cabin and listen to “Voice of America.”
"The totalitarian communist regime demonstrated very clearly to me that just because something is repeated often doesn’t mean it’s true (“The five-year plan is a great success again!”) and that just because the propaganda machine uses terms such as “democracy” and “free elections” to describe itself, that does not mean there is a democracy or free elections."...
Hana Kabele Gala has been teaching Hotel Business Management for over 15 years. She holds a Ph.D. from Charles University, Prague as well as several other degrees of questionable value. Hana also runs a thriving coaching practice in Seattle, Washington, where she uses neuroscience and hypnosis to help overthinkers live better.
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