A Deep and Dark Rabbit Hole

by

Gadfly

On more than one occasion during a conversation, the other party attempted to detour my line of reasoning by saying, “I’m not going down that rabbit hole!”  In some cases, I would admit that the thrust was tangential to the central theme or argument and backed off.  In others, I realized that I was actually trying to find an exit from the rabbit hole from which we were already starting.  This is America’s current dilemma:  we are in a deep and dark rabbit hole.  Most do not like it, yet also do not really know its nature and why we are in it.

In a sentence, how can we describe the rabbit hole?  We have a President that the left has never accepted and has never ceased to find a way to remove him.

The leftist cabal wants to forget the political and illegal maneuvers (protecting their favored candidate from criminal prosecution while illegally spying on their political opponent) that preceded the 2016 election.  The Mueller investigation failed despite the corrupt maneuvering to even get to the appointment of a special prosecutor (more still continues to surface, such as Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein’s seditious actions, yet the mainstream media is not interested).

Even Republicans or alleged Trump apologists argue that the name Biden should never have been mentioned in the July 25 telephone call between President Trump and the newly-elected Ukrainian President.  The rationale is that it implicated a motivation for dirt on a political rival.  Thus, by inference, this logic suggests a quid pro quo.

            Hardly anyone wants to advance an argument that Trump believes in the rule of law and as America’s chief law enforcer he has a moral and legal obligation to exercise his authority when he has probable cause of a crime.  In this case, the possible crime is bribery by the second most powerful man in the world.  Yet, like the recent whistle-blower, the leftist cabal cloaks him in a defensive shield because he is an opposing candidate in the 2020 presidential election.  To advance the notion that Trump’s motivation was to seek dirt (as Schiff blatantly claims in his fabricated script during a recent House Intelligence hearing) on a political opponent completely negates, through political fiat, the President’s Constitutional authority and obligations.

Ironically, the public becomes duped again by the current leftist cabal political smear, which advances the narrative from a “whistle-blower” perspective as opposed to “a leaker” perspective as highlighted in a recent New Yorker column.  The article is biased and employs cherry-picking tactics, but it provides a lens for peering into the leftist paradigm.  In the same issue of The New Yorker, there is a blatant hit piece (“The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine”) to debunk or censor views and evidence from other sources, such as Fox News and The Hill’s John Solomon.

To add to the confusion, on today’s Meet the Press, during a contentious interview with Senator Ron Johnson (this should happen more frequently by our elected officials—corruption can only be defeated by virtue, especially courage), Chuck Todd pressed him into answering the question, “Do you believe Russia interfered with our election?”  To which he answered, “Yes.”  This is how insidious propaganda can be.

 

The implication of Todd’s question is that Russia hacked into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server.  This meme followed a DNC email dump announcement in advance by Wikileaks.  Democrats had to deflect the focus from the actual contents of the emails, which were damning.  Instead, they shaped the narrative by suggesting Russia, in collusion with the Trump campaign, did the hacking and then shared the contents with Wikileaks.  The DNC refused to let the FBI examine the server for evidence.  Instead, they hired Crowdstrike to complete the examination.  Taking their word for it, Director of National Intelligence Clapper and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency announced that there was a consensus among the intelligence community that Russia hacked into the DNC server (for a far more compelling analysis of this scenario, which debunks these claims, see “A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack,” The Nation, August 9, 2017).

 

A more precise answer to Todd’s question should have been, “According to Crowdstrike, a private firm hired by the DNC, Russia hacked into the server.  There was no corroborating investigation by government agencies.”  By denying government participation and hiring a private firm, the DNC avoided the risk of the discovery of criminal activity.  Imagine someone bringing a criminal allegation against another party where the district attorney’s office is expected to prosecute the case but only with “evidence” purchased by the accuser’s own sources. This is what happened in the Russia interference meme.

 

This meme almost happened in the McMartin trial mentioned in my last article.  When the defense lawyer actually examined video tapes of a therapist planting stories in the minds of children, he realized the therapist manufactured evidence that was then amplified by the media (in particular with a reporter that scooped all the exclusive interviews while he was sexually involved with the therapist—true story).  But it took seven years for the gears of the justice system to discover the truth and deliver justice for the defendants (even though they became financially bankrupt and their reputations were destroyed).  There was no justice for the perpetrators of the child molestation scandal.  They continued on with their lives and professions without any accountability.  Hopefully, this lack of accountability does not become the postscript for the current perpetrated scandals.  This is why Attorney General Barr and U.S. Attorney Durham’s efforts are so critical.

Missing from this “Russian hacking” picture is why Seth Rich, a DNC staffer, was executed about a month after Wikileaks announced it would publish the emails.  Dead men tell no lies, nor truths for that matter.  The left has gotten away, so far, with destroying evidence (IRS, 30,000 subpoenaed emails, etc.).

For more confusion, even the right-of-center The Washington Examiner published an opinion piece, “Trump Misfires:  Senate Democrats’ Letter to Ukraine Was Fine,” that claimed there was nothing wrong when three Democrat Senators pressured (see the letter here) the government to cooperate in the Mueller investigation, specifically singling out Paul Manafort.  The article’s author claims the Senators had the right to do this based on a Mutual Legal Aid Treaty.  Yet, the author seems to deny the President of the United States, America’s chief law enforcer under Article II of the Constitution, the same right.  Ukraine has been seriously implicated in the Russian dossier that served as the predicate for spying on Trump’s campaign.  Why should the President be politically handcuffed in seeking justice?

According to The Hill’s John Solomon, a leading investigative journalist reporting on emerging details of the deep and dark rabbit hole: “Politics. Pressure. Opposition research. All were part of the Democrats’ playbook on Ukraine long before Trump ever called Zelensky this summer. And as Sen. Murphy’s [a Democrat Senators threat to Ukraine to back off of investigations if it wants to get American aid] foray earlier this month shows, it hasn’t stopped.”  For additional evidence to support this assertion see, “Let’s Get Real:  Democrats Were First to Enlist Ukraine in U.S. Elections.”

Lest we forget, at the manipulative urging by British spy Christopher Steele and GPS Fusion Glenn Simpson, the late Senator John McCain was used as an instrument to dispatch his aid David Kramer (employed by the McCain Institute) to get a copy of the dossier for presentation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and to leak it to the press.  If one has read the Mueller report, there are numerous footnotes to news reports, as if the news reports were actual evidence.    Fifteen news sources claim collusion; therefore, it must be true.  This is the way propaganda works.

As readers of these Gadfly Corner articles are aware, I have referenced material from former members of the Communist Party who have memorialized their experiences as Communists.  Douglas Hyde was an editor for The Daily Worker in London.  In his book, I Believed:  The Autobiography of a Former British Communist, Hyde documents how stories were told to advance the Party line and to discredit those who opposed the Communist doctrine.  The tactics are consistent with those at play today.  The attempt to discredit alternative news sources such as Fox News and John Solomon, in particular, seek to advance the Party line.

Closer to home, American Louis Francis Budenz memorialized his experiences as well, in particular, in his books This Is My Story and The Techniques of Communism.  In the latter book, Budenz devotes a chapter with the title, “Affecting Public Opinion.”  He talks about “psychological warfare” and asserts “the Communists were aware of the power of this weapon as an outstanding means to advance the ‘class war.’”  He goes on to say: “To the followers of Lenin and Stalin, . . . [t]heir great asset was infiltration of the institutions and organizations of the country they plan to undermine, following Lenin’s instructions to employ perjury and deceit and Stalin’s directive to make transmission belts of those organizations for the Communist line” (p. 153).  Communism is socialism.

My friends, the deep and dark rabbit hole is the socialist infiltration of America’s institutions:  the government, the media, Hollywood, academia, teachers’ unions, think tanks such as the Center for American Progress, religious institutions, and so forth.

 

As much as President Trump argues that America will never be a socialist nation, he is championing an effort to counter the fact that major institutions have already been afflicted.  Former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon warned us about the infiltration in his 1978 book, A Time for Truth.  Malachi Martin warned us about Soviet Communist infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church in his 1978 book, The Final Conclave.  Bella Dodd, in her memoir, The School of Darkness, confessed to the infiltration of labor unions (especially teachers) and the Catholic Church (she had direct knowledge, saying “in the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the church from within”).

In any socialist system, there is only one commandment (as Orwell tells it in his novel, Animal Farm):  All animals are equal; some are more equal than others.  Those in power are the ruling class in a totalitarian state.  They enjoy luxury and power while the rest of society are equally miserable.  The miserable in Venezuela who trusted in promised “hope and change” now suffer from the deep and dark rabbit hole its ruling class took them.

Despite the leftist cabal’s deliberate and concerted caricaturing (consistent with “Lenin’s instructions to employ perjury and deceit and Stalin’s directive to make transmission belts of those organizations for the Communist line”) of President Trump, my hope and confidence is in him as the means for escaping the deep and dark rabbit hole the left has taken us.