October 7, 2020 – West Bend, WI – In the heat of political campaigns, we are bombarded with information. It’s impossible to process it all, and even more difficult to distinguish truth from lies. Our individual opinions and mindsets are molded by where we acquire news, and increasingly this is not a common experience.
Facebook, Twitter, Apple News, cable news channels, talk radio and websites have supplanted the “old” sources of broadcast news and newspapers. This dilution has led to an erosion of journalistic integrity; where facts had to be verified before publication, and the political opinion of a “true” journalist was indiscernible.
In our current world there is little to call truth, except that ALL media has bias – whether it’s left- or right-leaning, or purports to be unbiased. Many times, the bias exists in what stories are intentionally NOT covered, and the public never knows. Since we’re all ingesting different fragments of information, it fuels our hyper-partisanship, and few people make the time or effort to see through it.
Science itself has fallen victim, as popular theories are stated as fact, studies have predetermined outcomes, data is cherry-picked and replicability is ignored.
In my opinion, President Trump, as an outsider to politics, has endured a withering assault from all sides – starting with the 2016 campaign, ramping up during the transition period, and continuing through his entire term in office.
The pattern is familiar now: Ridicule his statements, interview all the political “experts” to tell us how uninformed he is, then obfuscate and delay any attempts to verify facts or expose supporting evidence. Strangely, months or years later when the truth finally comes out, he’s usually proven correct.
Remember the wire-tapping of Trump Tower, putting Watergate to shame? The smears against Gen. Flynn, proven false? The Russian collusion allegation, confirmed to be Hillary’s tactic? Continual accusations of racism, without any merit? A Ukrainian phone call inflated into an impeachment, a narrative literally more applicable to Biden? And for months now the pandemic, blamed for decisions largely made by Democrat Governors?
Despite all the challenges, President Trump has kept almost every campaign promise he made. His list of accomplishments is impressive. Ask yourself whether you want to reward those who tried for nearly four years to undermine our legitimately-elected President and his administration or, to finally put an end to the nonsense and give him a chance to govern. Vote for Trump!
Randy Marquardt
West Bend, WI
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Well written and to the point.
https://wifamilyaction.org/president-trumps-historic-accomplishments/
The link is a list of Trump’s accomplishments. Check it out!
Excellent