NOT IN THE SWIM!

Have you ever wondered

why the loudest most persistent cries in public and private life are anti-Trump?

Yaacov ben Moshe writes at a blog called Breath of the Beast about an essay Mark Twain wrote but never published because he did not want himself or his family to have to deal with the fallout. In it Twain

sheepishly admits that thirty years before the Civil War, he and most other Americans actually accepted the existence of slavery. It was, “… not because we wanted to, for we did not, but we wanted to be in the swim.

In Twain’s time, political feelings were personal and ambient. The only media were newspapers, flyers and the occasional speech. These days, we have television, radio and social media all of which leverage “the mainstream” into a flood tide. In place of Twain’s neighbors, co-workers and townspeople, we are beset by the almost unanimous howling, bleating, and self-aggrandizement of preening Mass Media Personalities. They are the avatars of the elite establishment. They are telling you what to think and feel and how to think and feel it 24/7. They mean to make you understand that if you do not do it precisely as they say, you are NOT IN THE SWIM!

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