Ok, it seems there is a war going on against truth these days. People have become serious about creating mis-information and counter-speech. Both, by definition are used to confuse, distract, and cloud the judgement of people like you and me everyday. The why is a long story for another day, so what I'm going address is the fact that it IS indeed happening.
The thin line between what's real and what is hopes and dreams becomes harder to find everyday to the untrained eye. The media has an agenda, the government has an agenda. The truth matters, the truth has power associated with it. When you're on the side of truth, you have almost a home-field advantage. So now, I'm going to clear the air and make it crystal clear for anyone willing to hear it.
Perceived reality is simply what people think is likely to happen, or happening. As a police officer is dispatched to a domestic violence call involving weapons, any officer will tell you a slew of things start going through their head... Is the female being attacked by her lover who has a weapon? Is the female the armed party and trying to defend herself? Will you be walking into a man-trap when you get there? As humans we will process these thoughts, and using the limited information at hand we will try to perceive what is actually taking place. Any law enforcement officer will tell you reality is often stranger than fiction. Fiction is what becomes of perceived reality once you encounter the actual reality of a situation.
In this, I'm going to debunk the biggest issue that has a completely different perceived reality vs. the actual reality that occurs.
Since Glenn Beck had his first 9-12 project meet, the Obama administration started throwing around the terms "domestic terrorist" and "right wing extremist". A video that has been released by the government shows a Caucasian male parking a car bomb. After a cutscene, you see a Caucasian female with a briefcase bomb. Ok, there is purposeful subtext here. Don't miss it, or through naivety discard it as coincidence. It's things like this that help us come to perceive reality.
There have been quite a few instances like this taking place. Another one is that guns are bad, and all of Mexico's guns are going across our border to them. Mexican President Calderon just put up a billboard pointed at the US that says "No More Weapons." (Found here).
So now you're getting the picture in your head, you hear Attorney General Holder come out and say he supports re-instating the 'assault weapons ban.' Guns are bad.... You hear cartels have guns bought from the US, and everyone knows how dangerous the cartels are... There's a very big anti-gun sentiment in the air, now someone just seeing someone else with a gun in a city usually ends up in a 911 call.
You start getting the picture in your head that the right wingers are dangerous. Right wing extremists are allowing guns to be sold to just anybody, including Mexican drug cartels.
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However, if you're paying attention, you also noticed a few other things which have demonstrated the actual reality. Everyday we get new information, and lately that info has been quite at odds with the perceived narrative coming out of Washington.
They caught another non-US citizen caught trying to blow himself up in Washington. (Found here).
Oh, and it's not the right wingers "allowing" guns to be sold to supply Mexican drug cartels, it's actually our own Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms that is "allowing" assault weapons to be sold to verified cartel buyers. (Found here).
Knee-jerking people asleep in the sea of perceived reality see Tommy Jordan shoot his dis-respectful daughters laptop and call the police in fear he is going to kill her. (Found here).
When in actual reality, it's not Tommy Jordan killing his daughter with his gun for having an interracial relationship. It's actually a muslim, and he's doing it with whatever he could get his hands on. (Found here).
The actual reality is that the "right wing extremists" and tea party members love this country. They don't want to go blow somebody up. They are not buying assault weapons for any purpose other than self-defense and hunting reasons. They don't want to kill their children, they want to raise them correctly. Not someone else's definition of correct, the actual version of correct. Once you learn to look for the actual reality, you'd be a fool to miss it. The left in America has no tolerance. American born Libertarian's actually are the tolerant people the left pose as.
