The narrow road ahead
I hope today finds you well, brothers and sisters, at least as well as can be expected under the circumstances. I can assure you that my interest in your personal well-being is sincere. Nevertheless, I am also here today to ask a favour of you.
Out of frustration and anger at the outcome of the election, many of you have abandoned and even unsubscribed from various progressive social media sites, especially those sites created for the circulation of progressive news. That’s okay, I understand the impulse, I really do. It’s a form of symbolism that probably made you feel marginally better when you did it and I cannot fault you for that. It’s the virtual equivalent of throwing a chair across the room or having a bit too much to drink.
But you need to stop. You need to re-subscribe to all of those sites that you unsubscribed from. Not only that, you need to go to other sites, sites you were never subscribed to before the election and subscribe to those as well. Then you need to make it your personal mission to encourage your friends to do the same. I’ll give you a partial list of sites presently, but first allow me to explain.
While I empathize with the impulse that made you quit social media, it was, in the long run, a mistake. If America is to have a future, its future will be in the encouragement and promotion of the truth. America’s mainstream media has lied to us and betrayed that truth. We need to turn our backs on them and embrace the one place yet untouched by corporate special interests. That place is independently owned and operated progressive online media, including — and especially — Palmer Report.
Make Palmer Report your number one go to place for the news. Tell your friends to do the same. Think of us as the equivalent of Radio Free Europe during the Cold War, the one place where you could get the real news of the world, and not state-supported propaganda. Think of us as informational leaflets thrown by the millions out of aircraft flying over Nazi Germany. Think of us as your lifeline to the truth.
Turn your backs on CNN, MSNBC and the networks. Turn to us here and other places like us. Go to YouTube and subscribe to David Pakman, the MeidasTouch Network, Brian Tyler Cohen and others like them. If you know of other reliable sources for the news please post them in the comment field below.
Make it your mission to get others to do the same. Whenever you talk to someone interested in politics or the truth, encourage them to go to Palmer Report, encourage them to subscribe to those other channels I mentioned. Discourage them from watching the mainstream media. Discourage them from reading the New York Times or the Washington Post, places that helped democracy die in darkness.
If you’re looking for someone to punish for putting us in this predicament, punish the mainstream media. They are the ones who “sane-washed” Trump. Bill and I and Shirley, James, Ron and Bocha will watch those channels for you, if you like. Not to protect you from their lies so much — we know you’re smart enough to see through them — but to punish the mainstream media by drastically reducing its viewership.
Help us achieve this goal. Help us make Palmer Report (and other champions of progress) a major print-media player in the next progressive revolution. Help us harm and punish the mainstream media for doing this to us. Help us create a media revolution that hurts and repudiates the Rupert Murdochs and Jeff Bezos of the world. Help us make this new revolution go viral.
Evil runs and hides from the truth the way mythical vampires run and hide from mirrors, the way cockroaches scurry away when you turn on the light. In like manner we have endured watching MAGA politicians and apologists dodge questions too long. We have watched them Gish-gallop away from the truth and change the subject to lies, and we have watched the mainstream media let them get away with it for far too long. No more. Brothers and sisters, let’s take back the truth!
Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.