Name:   Buteye - Subject:   Now we know Date:   11/19/2016 1:58:22 AM (updated 11/19/2016 2:01:09 AM)

This election cycle showed just how much the media can influence people's decision making on key issues affecting our daily lives. I think that one of the major reasons the media  has reached this point is primarily the rapidity with which any happening can reach the eyes and ears of everyone around the world. The fact that in a moments notice you can see real time events taking place all over the world. We hear so much about how Facebook and other social media outlets have become a minute to minute sharing of information and can immediately influence people's actions, either good or bad. As I think many people are saying, the media probably helped Trump win the election because they thought that we "deplorables" were unable to think for ourselves and would therefore believe whatever "line" they would feed us. They failed to realize that the "bull" they had been espousing for the last eight years was not the "change" we wanted to hear. And once we realized that Hillary's message was simply another four or eight years of Obama, the "cookie" finally crumbled. 

The protests and riots which are now continuing has actually identified who the "deplorables" really are and they have to take their vengeance out on law abiding citizens of our country. Most of the people participating in the protests and riots didn't vote in the election and are being paid and bused in from other states. Those persons that are carrying out violence on other people and are burning and destroying other peoples property are committing treason and should be apprehended for breaking the law. The fact that students at our high schools and universities and who in many cases are encouraged by faculty and administrators are walking out of class and protesting is deplorable. They should be told that those that fail to return to class will not receive credit and could affect the graduation of those eligible for graduation. Faculty and administrators at institutions receiving state and federal monies should be advised that funds will be withdrawn unless "leadership" demands immediate return to class.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I think we all know or should know about Saul Alinsky( an American community organizer and writer who is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing and is often noted for his 1971 book Rules for Radicals).  Hillary "greatly admirerd" him and said he was "one of her heroes, her mentors". She admired him so much that her senior thesis was about him. Also, Obama was an admirer of Alinsky and his son wrote a letter for the Obama campaign in 2008. This whole story of Alinsky, Obama, and Hillary is sickening.