Philadelphia could decide the election

 

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

 
Just when mainstream media thought it had control of the election by hyping COVID-19, another police-involved shooting takes center stage, leaving voters to decide which national narrative to believe.
Philadelphia becomes ground zero for the presidential campaign because it symbolizes every issue except covid-19 that has been racking the nation.
A mentally ill-black man with a knife and numerous previous encounters with police (and who had posted videos rapping about killing cops) was shot death by police after he allegedly lunged at them with the knife.
This set loose yet another wildfire of protests – particularly in Philadelphia where rioters burned, looted, attacked police – and even apparently assaulted journalists.
This event occurred in one of the most liberal cities in America, a sanctuary city with a black mayor, mostly black city council, black police chief and mostly black police force – with the pro-racial justice mayor claiming video raised questions about the shooting (adding fuel to the fire so to speak.)
Coming so close to the election, the narrative switched away from the COVID-19 terror media has been spreading to a less predictable narrative in which the voting public gets to choose between two radically different points of view.
With Pennsylvania seen as one of the state’s critical to both presidential candidates, the election will hinge on whether the voting public sympathizes with the victim or fears the social chaos radicals are stirring up in the city.
In some ways, this shooting will have an even greater impact on the election than any event since the death of George Floyd.
Will people who are voting in Pennsylvania now fear that they will see their cities burns or are they believing the more radical narrative of cops out of control?
Until this event, the Democrats had managed to tamper down the riots in places like Portland and Seattle but even those places are flaring up with the outrage over the shooting.
Media has no credibility at this point since it has completely jumped on the racial Justice bandwagon and is largely ignoring the fact that this again is one of those instances where you have a known criminal confronted by the police.
Whatever the outcome of this election will hinge on this moment because it is what this election is about.
Do people have a right to tear down their cities and defund police and put other people at risk  or are people going to buy the media-generated narrative that police and indeed, all of white American is a racist Society.
Most likely people will believe what they already believe, and this will only entrench them more.
The question is all about fear. Media has used COVID-19 to help Democrats by keeping people afraid.
But with this, media has less control, and their racist headlines may backfire to make people fearful of the radical reaction to these shootings.
The Democrats and media who have been scaring people to death with covid-19 this will now  have this new narrative over which neither media nor the Democrats have control going into the final days of an election, making everything unpredictable.
This could not have happened in a state that is so critical
If Trump wins Pennsylvania in Florida and North Carolina he wins the election. The question here will be whether or not this tips the election into his camp or Biden's.
The laptop by Biden’s son never quite took off in the national media the way the Republicans expected it to partly because the mainstream media proved its ability to control the narrative and dismiss this as a dirty trick which in some ways it probably was.
This is not to say that what the Republicans are saying about Biden is untrue; it's just unproven
Ultimately it is too complex an issue to have the same weight as covid-19 is going to kill you or that a cop with a gun is bad.
Democrat controlled media have been creating narratives way too long and they are way too good at misinformation than the Republicans are.
But the Philadelphia story is a local issue now not a national one. It is what happened in Philadelphia and the fires that are burning, and looting are happening too close to home for media to successful manipulate it as media has done with issues such as calling Trump a racist.
This is not a narrative that the national media can control the way it can with covid-19.
Local news is much more realistic in that people can see the fires and smell the fires and see the Looting themselves.
They don't need an NBC narrator telling them what to think in this regard whereas CNN or MSNBC can accuse Trump of racism and no one will actually know whether that is true.
Of course, this just adds to the amazing last moments of one of the most amazing elections in US history.