{"id":298758,"date":"2017-03-13T02:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T01:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-democrats-dangerous-diversion\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T02:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T01:26:03","slug":"the-democrats-dangerous-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-democrats-dangerous-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats\u2019 Dangerous Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> The Democrats won\u2019t admit that they lost to Donald Trump because they ran a deeply flawed, corporate-oriented candidate, so they blame Russia instead, a very dangerous diversion, says Nicolas J S Davies.<\/p>\n<p>By Nicolas J S Davies<\/p>\n<p>The current debate over \u201cfake news\u201d has\u00a0reminded me of a conversation I had several years ago with a former citizen of East Germany, now living\u00a0in the United States.\u00a0He explained that, in East Germany, everybody knew that what the media told them about their own\u00a0country was a bunch of lies and propaganda.\u00a0So they assumed that what the media told them about the West was just propaganda, too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18637\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/thumb_PC2016_HillaryClinton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/thumb_PC2016_HillaryClinton-300x184.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18637\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/thumb_PC2016_HillaryClinton.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/thumb_PC2016_HillaryClinton-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18637\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/thumb_PC2016_HillaryClinton-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/thumb_PC2016_HillaryClinton.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/thumb_PC2016_HillaryClinton-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressing the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. on March 21, 2016. (Photo credit: AIPAC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now living in the U.S., he had come to realize that a lot of what the East German media said about life in the U.S. was actually true.\u00a0There really are people living on the street, people with no access to healthcare, widespread poverty, a lack of social welfare and\u00a0public services, and many other problems, as the East German media accurately reported, and as the Chinese government also noted in its latest report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/China-Releases-Human-Rights-Report-on-US-Terrible-Problems-20170309-0002.html\">human rights in the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend\u00a0wished he and his countrymen had understood the difference between what their media told them about their country and what they reported about the West.\u00a0Then they could have made more intelligent choices about which aspects of life in the West to adopt, instead of allowing Western experts to come in and impose the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoliberalism\">neoliberal\u00a0model<\/a> on their country.<\/p>\n<p>In the West, of course, the state media of East Germany and other Communist countries were held up to ridicule. I remember hearing that people in the U.S.S.R. would open their newspapers in the morning and have a good laugh at the latest \u201cfake news\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Pravda<\/em>.\u00a0But, as my German friend eventually understood, there was some truth amongst the propaganda, and the hidden danger of such a corrupted media system is that people end up not\u00a0knowing what to believe, making informed democratic choices almost impossible.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, people all over Eastern Europe were cornered into a false&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/03\/12\/the-democrats-dangerous-diversion\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: The Democrats won\u2019t admit that they lost to Donald Trump because they ran a deeply flawed, corporate-oriented candidate, so they blame Russia instead, a very dangerous diversion, says Nicolas J S Davies. By Nicolas J S Davies The current debate over \u201cfake news\u201d has\u00a0reminded me of a conversation I had several years ago with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-298758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}