My name is Jason Kassel. I am a secular Democratic candidate running for Congress in California’s 5th District against evangelical Christian Nationalist Tom McClintock. I will not allow the biased, woke He Gets Us media to censor the secular message. This Democratic candidate is going to whine, complain, and moan just as much as the evangelical Christian Nationalist Republican candidates.
In American politics, for decades, the Republican Party has worked the media referees by loudly, vociferously, and repeatedly claiming the media has a left-wing bias. This is true for certain social issues where demographics such as educated women and openly gay Americans are overrepresented. However, for the vast majority of day-to-day issues affecting men, women, gay, straight, etc. such as crime, economics, government corruption, the media tends to be extremely conservative. In general, I think because of the economics of readership or viewers, the media does not want to rock the status quo. Economic incentives require that it be absolutely beholden to existing financial and social arrangements.
Who am I to tell independent business owners how to run their business? I know nothing about running news organizations. I have zero knowledge of how to make the monthly paychecks and have workers depend on me. I do not know those things.
What I do know is that the evangelical Christian Nationalists, such as DeSantis, are attacking the American free press. I do not know why people get into the media business. However, if the people who own the media chose to do so because they want to be in control of a free media organization, and not have the government dictate coverage, then the presentation of the Republican Party has to change before the 2024 election.
The American public needs to know that the evangelical Christian Nationalist Republican Party is not normal. A political party supported by a terrorist threat, a violent paramilitary organization, and an organized anti-government militia is not normal. It is not normal that QAnon, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers (whose members were found guilty of Seditious Conspiracy because of their illegal behavior during January 6, 2021) form the Republican Party’s political base. It is not normal that more than half of all Republican voters support Christian Nationalism. It is not normal that Republican elected officials support transforming America into a Christian Nationalist country. These things are not normal.
The biased and woke He Gets Us Christian Nationalist media censors the truth. The Republican Party isn’t ‘conservative.’ It isn’t the Republican Party from the days of Ronald Reagan. It is an evangelical Christian Nationalist Republican Party whose professional members follow the dictates of the Southern Baptist Convention’s unique understanding of the evangelical Jesus. The Southern Baptist Convention, and the evangelical Christian Nationalist Republicans they elect, will not stop until all of American society is transformed in their image and every aspect of American life revolves around their understanding of the evangelical Jesus.
The biased and woke He Gets Us media continues to censor the information true Americans who are secular require before the 2024 election. In the past the Christian Nationalist Republican candidates, through their continual whining, have shamed the press into covering politics through their perspective. Will the biased and woke He Gets Us media be shamed into covering a secular candidate? Or, will they censor the secular perspective and enable the radical evangelical Christian Nationalist transformation of American life?
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