Article snippet: Honestly, any rational person who lives in the real world — and I like to count myself among that group — must be baffled by the news media’s ongoing meltdown; the screech of one crisis after another, which reflects nothing close to reality. For example: Yesterday, I paid 98 cents for a dozen eggs. My 401(k) is kicking butt. No one I know is struggling to find work, which was definitely not the case a few years ago. American servicemen are not coming home in body bags. There are no race riots, which also wasn’t the case a few years ago. There seems to be fewer domestic terror attacks. For the last two years global temperatures have dropped and this year, so far, has certainly been a cool one. Unemployment has reached record lows. Wages are rising. Manufacturing jobs are coming back. Inflation is almost non-existent… This, my friends, is what peace and prosperity look and feel like. This is it. Take it from a middle-aged guy who lived through Watergate, Vietnam, the Carter years, 9/11, Iraq, and Barry Obama’s managed decline — this is as good as America gets. But with a Republican in office, most especially a Republican named Donald Trump, the media are desperate to distract us from this inconvenient good news, and so they are manufacturing a fabricated reality where Mississippi is still burning, white supremacism is on the march, the Chinese are about to Red Dawn our economy, everyone’s going to be shot at school, democracy itself teeters on the brink, and wome... Link to the full article to read more