Every morning since the election, a new headline has flashed across the screen boasting another horrific story of rioting in the streets, communities being destroyed, and an overwhelming amount of disdain toward the election’s results. It appears that the divide in our nation is multiplying each day, and the political discourse is becoming exponentially more toxic.
But how much of this is true discontent with our Electoral College? How much of this is a sincere fear of a Donald Trump administration? Or how much of this is simply being exaggerated and encouraged by the ever-present media echo chamber?
Take a moment to objectively consider this recent news coverage given what we already know. We already know that Donald Trump easily defeated all 16 other GOP candidates in the primaries, and ultimately beat Hillary Clinton by 58 electoral votes. We already know that virtually every map showed Trump with an impossibly narrow path to victory just 24 hours before the election and the polls all reflected the same. They were all wrong.
So why is it that a mainstream media, which continuously proves itself to be less-than-credible is still influencing our perception of this election?
The reason for this is because social media has become the left’s greatest weapon in manipulating the millennial age group. Now the liberal bias is not only limited to real news outlets, because anything on social media that hits trending status becomes fact. What better way to validate the left’s claims than to repeat them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all of us to see?
The media has created a liberal millennial prototype of us whether we choose to belong to that category or not. The mainstream media is telling us it is okay to refuse to challenge our way of thinking in college through their praise of safe spaces and “trigger warnings.” They are setting us up to believe that any failure we have in life will be someone else’s fault. I am begging you to see how severely flawed that logic is – we are so much better than that.
This extremely politically correct culture has created a constant reverberation of a single ideology consistent throughout social media, which is exactly why no one saw the Trump victory coming. The enemy that the media has made out of conservatives and independent thinkers in general has kept them quiet.
Trump supporters were much less likely to post a Facebook rant regarding their views for fear of public backlash, which summed up the entire premise of “the silent majority.” So many young, intelligent voices were not heard this election cycle for fear of being labeled as sexist, racist, or a myriad of other things they simply are not. They decided to forego the angry Facebook posts and silently take their opinion where it counted – to the voting booth. What a concept.
I challenge you to consider the fact that the loudest voice is the one that’s heard, not the most reasonable or accurate. The same media that is telling you our country has reached its limit and EVERYONE is pissed off about our president-elect is the same media that told you Trump had a nearly impossible path to victory.
Just as Trump’s supporters were quiet before the election, they still are. Mainstream media is a business; and as long as you are an easily influenced millennial who believes the entire country is in upheaval, you are buying everything they’re selling.
