Socialism is a viral belief system that attacks people when they are young, and is especially destructive of people with university degrees in the arts and humanities. It is a kind of equaliser, that makes smart people effectively stupid. You hardly have to go very far in reading the media to see it. Which brings me to this: The world just changed forever, but you’d hardly know it from the media

It is now official. On Thursday, the Senate let the Iran deal go through – a deal that will forever change the landscape of the world in terrifying and unthinkable ways. I need not enumerate how this collaboration with Iran (and it is a collaboration) will affect Israel, the Middle East, the United States, and indeed the entire world.

Readers know all too well.

And yet, you’d hardly know how our fate was sealed on Thursday. America’s alignment with the Nazis of the 21st century hardly made a dent in media coverage.

That’s because Nazis were National Socialists. The only consistency on the left are: (1) their attacks on anyone with wealth earned by producing things (i.e. they do not to attack the wealthy as such which allows them to ignore actors and sports stars, corrupt union officials or extremely well paid media people) and (2) to attack anyone who actually bases their values on the Judeo-Christian tradition which allows them to ignore the faults that might be found in the value systems of any other religious groupings (which, of course, includes atheists).

Media ignorance is so pervasive that everyone, other than fellow socialists, is perfectly well aware of it. Watching news shows on the ABC for people without this socialist warping is astonishingly painful which is why so few people do it.

As to the specifics about media making the population ignorant of anything, the most astonishing evidence was the reaction across the world to that picture of a single drowned child. Where have these people been for the past five years not to have come across many many photos just like it and far worse. Where they have been is watching the news and reading our papers, that’s where they’ve been, the perfect recipe for becoming as ignorant as the people who present and distort the news. How else does an Obama get elected or a Bill Shorten become competitive looking forward to our next election?