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The Power of Narrative Politics
The other day I was speaking with a 19-year-old young lady who is a neo-gun control believer. As a High School Senior, she was naturally horrified by the events of Parkland high school and, and as one would expect, these events hit close to home for her. In this conversation, she invoked “Trayvon Martin” and “Michael Brown” and my heart just sank. I wanted to scream “They died in the commission of FELONIES! They are NOT VICTIMS!” Both of the investigations in those cases were heavily and unreasonably biased against the defenders from the get-go and STILL the evidence of self-defense was obvious and undeniable. Behold the power of The Narrative.
As folks on the opposite side from the Liberal/Progressive point of view, I think we absolutely fail to understand the true power of Narrative Politics. In order to influence a population using Narrative Politics, you must craft the story that will lead the audience to the conclusion you WANT them to draw, regardless of truth, by making them FEEL a certain way about the subject. Any information that does not agree with The Narrative must be squelched. This is a nearly daily occurrence in the American “Mainstream” Media.
Trayvon Martin is a prime example of how Narrative Politics works; Instead of starting with a crime and following the evidence to lead to the truth, whatever it would be, The Left/Progressives started by publicly creating the Narrative of the case and working backwards. The Narrative was that Trayvon Martin was an innocent teenager, who went out to buy some Skittles and encountered hateful armed white Racist George Zimmerman a self-appointed vigilante who murdered the poor child in cold blood solely because Trayvon was black and wearing a hoodie. I crossed out “white” above because when The Narrative first aired, no one knew what George Zimmerman looked like. If we were honest with ourselves, we would admit that that his name sounds like an older white man which is what happened at the time. When it was revealed that Zimmerman was Hispanic, there was a pause for about a day and half while The Narrative people regrouped. This was not going to be a “White on Black” murder….it was “minority on minority” which doesn’t serve The Narrative. Some clever soul in the Left/Progressive camp saved the day by claiming Zimmerman was a “White Hispanic”. While the term did exist before this use, it very effectively got The Narrative back up and running! The Villain was a WHITE (Hispanic), the emphasis on the former over the latter when said out loud. It worked like a charm. How many celebrities did we see wearing Hoodies and holding up “Justice for Trayvon” signs?
The Narrative in turn forced the DA’s office to charge George Zimmerman as an appeasement to mounting pressure from those who bought into the Narrative. It did not matter in the slightest he officers who arrived on scene when Martin was shot did not charge Zimmerman because the story added up perfectly. Zimmerman’s injuries were consistent with his story, he had been on the phone with 911, there was even a witness to Martin assaulting Zimmerman. Since this information did not support The Narrative, it was not highly publicized.
The eyewitness testimony and the physical evidence from the crime scene show that Trayvon Martin was straddling George Zimmerman and beating him in the face “MMA Style” when the bullet entered his body. They Jury correctly found that at the moment George Zimmerman pulled the trigger, he was in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury. This is the standard for determining justification. It was also learned in his hometown, Trayvon was suspended from school for vandalism and based on the Women’s jewelry and tools found in his school backpack, he was under suspicion of being a burglar. This makes Zimmerman’s claims that he witnessed Martin walking through backyards and looking in windows seem a lot more plausible than merely a racist fabrication to cover his butt after a murder.
So powerful is The Narrative that the truths revealed in this case simply do not exist in the national discourse. They are totally eclipsed by the way the left wants the event to have happened. The Narrative is the “lie told often enough” and it becomes a synthetic truth. Once people buy in to The Narrative, you can then get them to support whatever goal you created The Narrative for. In the case of Trayvon Martin, it was to attack the “stand your ground” laws in Florida as well as general gun banning and originally to paint white people as racist.
The true master and founder of the Narrative was none other than Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbles. Ironically, Adolf Hitler didn’t start off against the Jews, he was after the Communists. Goebbles, a rabid Anti-Semite inserted Antisemitism into HIS Narrative and it was so well received by the audience at rallies, Hitler almost had no choice but to incorporate it into his platform.
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The Power of Narrative Politics
The other day I was speaking with a 19-year-old young lady who is a neo-gun control believer. As a High School Senior, she was naturally horrified by the events of Parkland high school and, and as one would expect, these events hit close to home for her. In this conversation, she invoked “Trayvon Martin” and “Michael Brown” and my heart just sank. I wanted to scream “They died in the commission of FELONIES! They are NOT VICTIMS!” Both of the investigations in those cases were heavily and unreasonably biased against the defenders from the get-go and STILL the evidence of self-defense was obvious and undeniable. Behold the power of The Narrative.
As folks on the opposite side from the Liberal/Progressive point of view, I think we absolutely fail to understand the true power of Narrative Politics. In order to influence a population using Narrative Politics, you must craft the story that will lead the audience to the conclusion you WANT them to draw, regardless of truth, by making them FEEL a certain way about the subject. Any information that does not agree with The Narrative must be squelched. This is a nearly daily occurrence in the American “Mainstream” Media.
Trayvon Martin is a prime example of how Narrative Politics works; Instead of starting with a crime and following the evidence to lead to the truth, whatever it would be, The Left/Progressives started by publicly creating the Narrative of the case and working backwards. The Narrative was that Trayvon Martin was an innocent teenager, who went out to buy some Skittles and encountered hateful armed white Racist George Zimmerman a self-appointed vigilante who murdered the poor child in cold blood solely because Trayvon was black and wearing a hoodie. I crossed out “white” above because when The Narrative first aired, no one knew what George Zimmerman looked like. If we were honest with ourselves, we would admit that that his name sounds like an older white man which is what happened at the time. When it was revealed that Zimmerman was Hispanic, there was a pause for about a day and half while The Narrative people regrouped. This was not going to be a “White on Black” murder….it was “minority on minority” which doesn’t serve The Narrative. Some clever soul in the Left/Progressive camp saved the day by claiming Zimmerman was a “White Hispanic”. While the term did exist before this use, it very effectively got The Narrative back up and running! The Villain was a WHITE (Hispanic), the emphasis on the former over the latter when said out loud. It worked like a charm. How many celebrities did we see wearing Hoodies and holding up “Justice for Trayvon” signs?
The Narrative in turn forced the DA’s office to charge George Zimmerman as an appeasement to mounting pressure from those who bought into the Narrative. It did not matter in the slightest he officers who arrived on scene when Martin was shot did not charge Zimmerman because the story added up perfectly. Zimmerman’s injuries were consistent with his story, he had been on the phone with 911, there was even a witness to Martin assaulting Zimmerman. Since this information did not support The Narrative, it was not highly publicized.
The eyewitness testimony and the physical evidence from the crime scene show that Trayvon Martin was straddling George Zimmerman and beating him in the face “MMA Style” when the bullet entered his body. They Jury correctly found that at the moment George Zimmerman pulled the trigger, he was in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury. This is the standard for determining justification. It was also learned in his hometown, Trayvon was suspended from school for vandalism and based on the Women’s jewelry and tools found in his school backpack, he was under suspicion of being a burglar. This makes Zimmerman’s claims that he witnessed Martin walking through backyards and looking in windows seem a lot more plausible than merely a racist fabrication to cover his butt after a murder.
So powerful is The Narrative that the truths revealed in this case simply do not exist in the national discourse. They are totally eclipsed by the way the left wants the event to have happened. The Narrative is the “lie told often enough” and it becomes a synthetic truth. Once people buy in to The Narrative, you can then get them to support whatever goal you created The Narrative for. In the case of Trayvon Martin, it was to attack the “stand your ground” laws in Florida as well as general gun banning and originally to paint white people as racist.
The true master and founder of the Narrative was none other than Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbles. Ironically, Adolf Hitler didn’t start off against the Jews, he was after the Communists. Goebbles, a rabid Anti-Semite inserted Antisemitism into HIS Narrative and it was so well received by the audience at rallies, Hitler almost had no choice but to incorporate it into his platform.
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The Power of Narrative Politics
