Alternate Reality

        When I was a little kid my Dad bought a little black and white TV so he and my Uncle could watch wrestling. I don’t know if Dad thought it was real but my Uncle did. Even today many people think it is real. Wrestling is a great example of how people lose reality on a topic or issue and allow other realities to become the one they live in instead of the one most of us live in.

            Today we have millions looking at little screens and believing the false realities they see on them. Social media and podcasts exist by getting people to believe the alternate realities they concoct and spread to gullible people. Getting them to buy the products they sell deepens that reality.          

            Of course the biggest loss of reality today is Trump’s “Big Lie” that the election was stolen. In 2016 he said if he didn’t win, the election would be stolen. He won the electoral votes but lost the popular vote by over three million. In 2020, he lost both. The electoral vote was the reverse of his 2016 electoral vote and lost the popular vote by seven million. His lawyer and advisor told state hearings their voting machines were wrong and they could prove it. One state said they could present his evidence under oath which he wouldn’t do. But millions are still in that alternate reality.

            Like fake wrestling, millions watch the scripted “reality” shows each week believing those story lines. They watched Fox News talking heads spout one lie after another when the real news had just said the opposite. Believing the talking heads is living in an alternate reality.

            Today some of those talking heads, pod-casters, and social media nitwits are siding with Putin on his invasion of Ukraine. Putin has been using his special propaganda people for years to sow divisive lies and cultivate relationships with politicians and media to weaken America. He said much could be accomplished in putting Trump in office instead of his enemy Hillary Clinton.