Radical leftists have gradually taken over many institutions.

That has created a distorted reality that affects how people vote.

And a state-run media outlet promoted one message that will have you gnashing your teeth.

People cannot make good decisions if they are getting bad information.

That is the problem with state-run media organizations like NPR and PBS.

Both are taxpayer-funded and are supposed to be neutral, but like so many institutions, they have been captured by the Left.

Longtime NPR senior reporter Uri Berliner resigned from the outfit after 25 years because he was punished for writing an op-ed that exposed NPR’s far-left bias.

But PBS is just as bad.

The unhoused

The channel recently platformed an expert on the unhoused, which is the latest propaganda term for homeless people.

Host John Yang asked Cornell professor Charley Willison, “[T]he Supreme Court hears arguments about whether laws limiting homeless encampments in public places are unconstitutional because they punish people for being homeless. The case is about laws in Grants Pass, Oregon, a city of about 40,000 in the state southwest corner, but the outcome could reshape policies nationwide for years to come. . .What’s your take on that?”

Willison responded, “[W]hat this case is really getting at is a deep tension that American cities face when thinking about how to respond to homelessness across the country, but especially in West Coast cities that have very limited shelter capacity, and are also in the midst of a housing crisis.”

Right off the bat, she is lying.

The root cause

Homelessness is not a housing issue; it’s a mental health and substance abuse issue.

Leftist activists intentionally conflate the two issues.

Also, there is shelter space available, but the people on the street are almost exclusively addicts with mental health challenges.

They want to stay on the street so they can score drugs easier, and they do not want to deal with curfews, drug tests, and employment requirements in subsidized housing.

And the far-left activists do not want them to have any conditions for having their own apartments.

Willison continued, “And these two tensions that I’d like to emphasize are that cities generally use much more punitive policies these criminalization approaches that are at the heart of Johnson v. Grants Pass to effectively punish people who are experiencing homelessness for behaviors that are associated with the realities of homelessness. Now, importantly, the use of these punitive policies actually facilitate cycles of homelessness and does not effectively end homelessness. While the alternative addressing homelessness through the use of more housing, as well as housing paired with access to social and medical services, does successfully end homelessness.”

Cities like San Francisco have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the homelessness crisis, and it has only gotten worse.

The reason why is because leftists refuse to acknowledge the underlying issues.

They think the problem can be fixed with free housing and free stuff.

That is fundamentally flawed, and all of the data prove this.

Joe Biden’s immigration policies have been an utter disaster.

He has attempted to blame Republicans for his folly.

But The Washington Post gave away the game on Biden’s border crisis with one ridiculous column.

Joe Biden reversed Donald Trump’s effective border policies as soon as he took office.

The expected result was a record number of illegal aliens entering the country, and Biden’s term is not even up yet.

When the border crisis got so bad that Democrat strongholds in the north were affected, Biden tried to pivot and blame Republicans in the Senate for the problem.

The truth about illegal immigration

But the reality is that the establishment does not want to stop illegal immigration; the establishment just does not want the bad press.

And The Washington Post gave away the end goal with a piece by the editorial board titled, “Let immigrants save the heartland.”

That’s essentially what the establishment wants.

The donor class of both parties wants cheap labor and Democrats want to increase the number of people who are statistically more likely to vote for the Democrat Party.

The Post argued that “[d]epopulation is bad for economies. Housing prices tank, local tax revenue collapses, the labor force shrinks, businesses go bust or leave, schools close.”

This is fascinating because leftists constantly argue that there are too many people on the planet and that people should have fewer kids.

But only now is depopulation a problem.

Meanwhile, left-wing columnist Matthew Yglesias wrote a book called, One Billion Americans, arguing for a mass migration of people into the United States.

The Left have made it harder for businesses to operate in America, sent a generation of military-aged men to fight in endless wars, and allowed literal poison in the form of fentanyl to enter into the country.

Meanwhile, the cultural mandarins of the Left are telling people to either not get married, or delay marriage and not have kids.

In that environment, the “solution” is a mass influx of migrants.

The Post added that “[t]here would be upfront costs. Shuttered schools would need to be refurbished. Local services might be strained, at first. But migrants would provide not only labor — potentially useful for elderly residents, who need help with tasks such as cooking or shopping, left behind in these places. Migrants would also add to local demand, lifting tax revenue. Many would open small businesses. Given an initial boost — perhaps with state funds, as well as migrants’ savings — they could help build a future for places that, today, don’t seem to have one.”

The Left have told multiple generations of people that they must go to college in order to have access to the middle class.

That is not true.

The result has been a concentration of people in big cities with degrees working service economy jobs.

A lot of these people would have been better off learning a trade and staying closer to home.

Another big problem with this “solution” is that public education has been captured by radical leftists.

Instead of assimilation, new arrivals are taught that the country is evil and they should maintain the culture of their country of origin.

That does not save the heartland; it transforms the heartland into unassimilated ethnic enclaves.

Colony Ridge in Texas is a prime example of this supposed heartland strategy run amok.

Pump the brakes

The United States had net zero immigration from 1924 to 1965, and the result was assimilation and intermarriage, which allowed people to adopt an American identity.

Opening the floodgates endlessly would have the opposite effect.

The Left know this, and they want it nonetheless.

Joe Biden is prone to tell whoppers.

The Democrat-controlled media simply shrug them off.

And Karine Jean-Pierre had no good answer when asked about one insane Biden story.

When Donald Trump was in office, The Washington Post and other outlets fact-checked every single sentence he uttered.

However, Joe Biden has largely been given a pass for his nonsensical statements, half-truths, and flat-out lies.

Biden recently told a bizarre story about his uncle being eaten by cannibals in the war.

Storytime with Joe

Biden said, “Ambrose Finnegan — we called him ‘Uncle Bosie’ — he — he was shot down. He was Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force.  He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it.  He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. They never recovered his body.  But the government went back, when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like.”

Worse yet, he awkwardly linked the story to a bogus Atlantic article about Trump.

Biden continued, “And what I was thinking about when I was standing there was when Trump refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris, and he said they were a bunch of ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ To me, that is such a disqualifying assertion made by a president — ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’  The guys who saved civilization in the 1940s — ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’”

First, it has been well-documented that Trump did not visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery because of weather deemed too dangerous to fly by helicopter.

And the “suckers” and “losers” comments were based on anonymous sourcing that has been countered on the record by people who were there.

After the “cannibal” comment, the White House Press Secretary joked back and forth with the press so as not to answer questions about the veracity of Biden’s statement.

A reporter asked during a briefing, “Can we see the ‘cannibal’ tab in your book?”

The room laughed as Jean-Pierre responded, “There is no ‘cannibal’ tab. What are you talking about?  Is that what you — is that what you’re asking me about?”

Jean-Pierre’s new attitude

The very next day, she took a completely different posture.

She said that the cannibal story was no laughing matter.

Jean-Pierre chided the room and explained, “He lost his life. . .[Biden] he takes this very seriously.  His uncle, who served and protected this country, lost his life serving. And that should matter.”

She also repeated the “suckers” and “losers” myth.

The Biden administration later clarified that “Uncle Bosie” was not eaten by cannibals.

This story is the latest in a long line that suggests Biden is losing his mental faculties.