It's Not Our Fault

We Are Not Responsible

The media is not to blame. They didn’t make Trump a celebrity. They didn’t encourage us to worship those who are wealthy, didn’t make Trump into a household name. They never gave him his own TV show where he could treat ordinary people like shit and make it appear he had the right to do so. They never gave him a billion dollars in free advertising by covering his campaign non-stop. Never once did they cut away from a Bernie Sanders speech when the message became too uncomfortable in order to cover the breaking news of Donald Trump’s plane landing.

The media is not to blame because they presented the issues in an honest and insightful manner. They never treated the elections like a dog and pony show. They never stooped to “gotcha” sound bites, opting instead to elevate discourse.

The media gives us substance They have never been afraid to show us the blood-stained carnage that resulted from our wars without purpose or end. They were always willing to dedicate huge chunks of advertising time to serious treatment of issues like global warming or the impending TPP agreement. The media is not to blame because they provide us with the context necessary to make the important decisions that impact our lives and the lives of our children.

The media is not to blame because even though the oil industry, pharmaceutical and insurance companies and weapons manufacturers were their advertisers, they never shied away from delving into issues of alternative energy, socialized medicine, and peace.

The Clintons are not to blame. It’s not like they ever gave credibility to the Trump brand.

Bill has no responsibility for what happened. As president, he never deregulated the media so that it became the divisive, corporate conglomerate attention-grabber it is not today. Bill Clinton never signed a trade agreement that gave even more power to those who already had too much. NAFTA did not ravage small towns, did not ship local jobs out of the country. It gave many wonderful opportunities for blue-collar workers to get in debt to earn an education for a white collar job, and if they did not pivot successfully, well, it’s time those ignorant racist hillbillies got over it. Losers.

Bill Clinton is not to blame for first using NATO as an offensive military weapon, nor is he to blame for spreading it eastward towards a Russia that was reeling from its transition away from the Soviet Union.

And it sure wasn’t Hillary’s fault. She didn’t sit silently on the board of Walmart while an anti-union agenda was constantly expounded. And she wasn’t part of a giant, anti-union corporation that destroyed local businesses in small towns, turning business owners into low-paid Walmart managers.

It wasn’t Hillary’s fault, because she’s always been amazingly consistent on positions. She was always firmly in support of the gay community, an early proponent of gay marriage. She always had great empathy for the poor blacks in the grip of the prison-industrial complex.

The Iraq War had nothing to do with Hillary, in fact she boldly stood in opposition to it. She never flip-flopped and she never once tried to back off her statements.

As Secretary Of State, Hillary had no hand in the overthrow of the government in Libya, leaving it a breeding ground for extremists and terrorists. And when she ran for president, she gave no indication that she would continue a foreign policy of reckless interventionism, sending the children of the lower classes to die and to kill in countries they know nothing of.

The Democratic Party is not to blame. They never pushed Donald Trump as the candidate they’d most like to run their chosen candidate against. They didn’t run an establishment candidate in an environment where the populace was clearly calling for change.

The Democratic Party cannot be at fault. If they were, they would admit they no longer represent their base and do whatever it took to connect with voters rather than corporate donors. In short, they would change from the strategy that had nothing to do with their losing all branches of government.

Elitist liberals are not to blame. They clearly had their fingers on the pulse of the average American. They clearly were in tune with the zeitgeist. They were not trapped in their own little bubble where everything was fine. For them.

None of us are to blame, certainly not the average person. How can we be to blame when we are powerless? Only Putin has power, vast endless amounts of it. Power enough to spend money on puppy Facebook pages without even having a reason for doing so. He is positively dripping with power, the puppet-master behind the entire U.S. system. J. Edgar Hoover would have seen it clearly enough.

Sadly, Hoover is no longer around to protect us. But there still is an army of secret intelligence agencies, corporate-funded think tanks, and the largest military industrial complex ever seen on the planet. Only they now stand between us and the destruction of our democracy. We must give it our full support. We must give it our uncritical acceptance of the official narrative derived from unnamed sources from inside the government, deriding all else as fake news. Only the deep state can save us now.

I know beyond any doubt that this is true. It is madness to think otherwise. Any dissenting voice is merely the words of Vladimir Putin mindlessly mouthed by Bernie Bros. I know this because the media told me so.