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I recently came across this comment from a world-weary reader of a popular conservative magazine, relating to an article about the Biden so-called presidency and how a vote for Harris will just be more of the same:

“Anyone who votes for this woman is actually voting for the anonymous oligarchy who are currently running things. Such a voter is nothing but a naive, pathetic twit with no self-respect and nothing but contempt for the citizens of this country. If you vote for Harris, you are voting for an anonymous team of rule makers and rule enforcers who are going to ‘save democracy.’ Man, you really need to be a moron to buy into what the Democrat party is selling.”

Some years ago, conservative personality Ann Coulter wrote a fascinating book about Senator Joseph McCarthy, the anti-communist zealot who was accused of ruining many prominent peoples’ lives by allegedly seeing a potential communist around every corner. Coulter was attempting to set the record straight by stating the facts around his investigations rather than the hysterical hype that the media and other critics so often engage in. And those facts proved that McCarthy was right far more often than he was wrong. 

Yet these days, the term “McCarthyism” is an especially contemptuous way of saying that someone is engaging in libelous behavior and/or jumping to totally false conclusions about the intentions of someone, usually a politician of the leftist persuasion. The point is, if you condemn someone again and again as a demented fool, then people eventually start to believe it. Call it the bandwagon effect or whatever you’d like, the general human tendency is to believe a lie if it’s told often and emphatically enough. As a result of the reputation trampling performed on Joseph McCarthy over the years, he has next to zero credibility with the general public – if they even know who he was these days. And the ripple effect of McCarthy’s damaged reputation is this: People will more often than not shrug off claims that Kamala Harris is a “communist” or a “cultural Marxist” because, in their minds, that’s just another case of McCarthyism, which means it has no credibility.

As Dr. Ben Carson recently noted in an interview with Tucker Carlson, the upcoming election will be a referendum on the power of the mostly left-leaning media. The implication is that Harris is such an empty pantsuit that if she somehow manages to get elected, then large numbers of voters bought the media’s positive messaging about her and, not to be discounted, the negative messaging about Donald Trump (some of which he brings on himself). 

Notice that I name-dropped Tucker intentionally because of the hits his reputation and credibility have taken in recent years. Does it make you think less of Ben Carson that he would sit down with the controversial Carlson for an on-the-record interview? It shouldn’t, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t. I know that my opinion of Tucker as a credible news source has declined as a result of (1) some of his words and actions, regarding Russia in particular, and (2) the negative messaging that has come out of those things. Unfortunately, this is part of our information-saturated age; anyone at any time can become fabulously famous, or sent to infamy in a matter of days. Unlike the pre-internet days when celebrities and politicians (who sometimes now are one and the same) could count on having some privacy that hid their worst actions and words from the public. 

Last Tuesday’s debate adds more emphasis to Dr. Carson’s remarks, since it’s fair to conclude that although Trump won on substance, Harris won on style points. She was coached well and was out to bait Trump from the get-go. Unfortunately, on several occasions, Trump took the bait and went down some rabbit holes. He could ill afford to do so since he in essence was debating three people who were all out gunning for him and was still expected to act “presidential.” In the end, what impact will the debate have on Normie Norm and Norma voters? If they use the debate as a measuring stick, will they be able to look beyond the façade of what Harris presented as her “vision” and recognize how tilted the moderators were toward the vice president?

In looking ahead to the election, we need to recognize that there are legions of “low-information” voters who have been beguiled by the Harris/Walz empty message of “joy.” This cohort of people may be a part of Paul’s reference in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11: “They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.” As my conservative commenter notes above, if you took an honest look at the facts and common sense, you’d have to be a moron to vote for Harris. Unfortunately, at least half of the nation’s voters will refuse to do this and instead believe the lie that is the Harris/Walz campaign. All we can do is try to influence those in our sphere to look into the truth of the matter.