“Evening News” (July 14, 2023)

How and why did Reason.com morph into Ruling Class sycophants?

How and why did Reason.com morph into Ruling Class sycophants?

Has “Reason” Surrendered its Brand?

If you know the answers to these questions, please clue me in. 

Strange things happen when one becomes a proper noun. There are vast differences between republican and Republican, democrat and Democrat, conservative and Conservative. Likewise, nouns and adjectives play under a separate set of rules. We bear witness to a Democratic Party whose raison d’être is rigging elections.

Whereas the Libertarians might not be as blatantly antithetical to their moniker as the Democrats, they are not what they used to be. This writer realizes the oxymoronic “establishment libertarians” have charted a different course in recent years, but he has not educated himself on the details.

Let’s narrow our focus to Reason.com. “Reason” magazine was started in 1968. The Reason Foundation was founded in 1978. Unlike other magazines and other foundations, Reason transitioned and flourished on the Internet. Reason.com.

Checking in with Reason from time to time is like tuning into the History Channel after taking a Rip Van Winkle nap. History has been replaced by pawn shop merchants, trash pickers, and aliens. Yes, we can get glimpses and gleanings of history through antique and collectibles speculation but what happened to Genghis Khan? 

Reason.com is as unconditionally anti-Trump as the mainstream media. They don’t seem particularly sympathetic to victims of illegal alien violence. Likewise, they don’t shed many tears for children who are groomed and conned, and castrated. Reason.com is allergic to discussions of election fraud because they “believe in the rule of law”. 

Most disturbingly, Reason.com routinely attacks the designated enemies of the orthodox press. Trump, DeSantis and now Robert Kennedy Jr., have found themselves the target of a caged monkey tossing his droppings at passersby. Given the polarity of the times, hit pieces are also not what they used to be, and it might be preferential to be struck by Reason scat than by the emanations of an 800-pound gorilla. The action says more about the monkey than the sidestepping mark.

Reason.com posted “RFK Jr.’s long con” on YouTube. 

Shortly thereafter, Tom Woods penned Respectable Libertarians Attack RFK and it was reposted at lewrockwell.com. 

Reason itself interviewed RFK maybe two weeks ago and asked him about some of the very issues Wolfe raises in her video from yesterday, but the Wolfe video either ignores his responses or (in one case) actually misrepresents them.

RFK, she says, “frequently implies that the establishment is corrupt at best, evil at worst.”

Oh, no! How can he say such a thing about our beloved Jerome Powell, Nancy Pelosi, and Lindsey Graham!…

Then this: “He wildly extrapolates from little grains of truth” — and as these words are being uttered, his excellent book The Real Anthony Fauci appears on screen.

We encourage you to watch the entire video. The upshot is that RFK Jr., this establishment prince, has betrayed his tribe. Point taken. 

Now, let’s return to the simian casting feculence. When and why did Reason.com start parroting legacy media? When and why did they start pledging allegiance to the establishment? How and why did Reason.com morph into Ruling Class sycophants?

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