Lindberg: Outlandish hysteria being perpetrated by the media

By Stu Lindberg

Anyone watching the network news lately or following the mainstream media would think that Adolph Hitler, the entire Nazi army and a legion of Civil War Reconstruction klansmen had risen from from the dead and invaded the United States. I have never seen so much outlandish hysteria perpetrated by the media in my entire life.

In trying to gain some semblance of perspective in all this madness I was compelled to do some research on the subject of hate groups in the United States. This is what I found.

There may be 200-1200 neo-Nazi members in 32 different states. The largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S. is the National Socialist Movement, which is estimated to have 400 members. Regarding the Ku Klux Klan, the Wikipedia entry states the KKK has “between 5,000 and 8,000 members nationwide.” It has that in the 1920s the KKK included about 15 percent of the nation’s eligible population, or about 4–5 million men.

Today the U.S. is a nation of 323.1 million people. In our republic, if the experts are to be trusted, there exists an estimated 9,200 philosophically committed militant racists. This is .000028 percent of our population.

In the last century the hearts and minds of an overwhelming majority of Americans have undergone a massive, positive paradigm shift in how we view one another. This is the good news. The bad news is how sad it is to see so many good citizens buying into the media narrative that anyone who has an opposing view is somehow a Nazi or a racist.

I have my own solution to put out the raging fire that the media continues to pour gas on. I am shutting off my television and turning off the computer. I am going to call my black friends, my white friends, my Indian friends, my conservative friends and my liberal friends and tell them how much I love them — not because of their color or political views, but for simply being good friends. It is a small act. One has to start somewhere.

Stu Lindberg writes occasional commentary for True North Reports. He lives in Cavendish, Vermont.

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2 thoughts on “Lindberg: Outlandish hysteria being perpetrated by the media

  1. They are trying to ride the only horse they have. What else is available to procure votes for the democrats?

  2. Nothing new here. As always, the vocal minority making a ruckus gets the ink while the silent majority goes about its business in a respectful orderly way.

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