This is so true. What’s perhaps even more evil than the mainstream media intentionally misleading their audience with one-sided coverage, is the consequence that has of empowering their viewership to parrot the obvious contempt the mainstream media has for a growing majority of the population: Trump sympathizers. The mainstream media laughs at and others these subset of the population, so their viewers do to! How are we ever supposed to understand each others’ values and grievances in this country if this keeps up?
I agree. I was talking to some folks who were afraid evangelical Trump supporters would take over the military and despotize Trump. Aside from a complete ignorance about how our military or coups work these were clearly people who had NO idea what evangelicals were like or what they believed.
It would be as if I read that Muslims support the concept of Sharia law (true) and Sharia law supports a Muslim theocracy (true) and Iran is a Muslim Theocracy (true)... so I decided that Muslims in Dearborn were potential fifth columnists in a war with Iran! And then read some articles about ISIS recruiting and protests and decided that these people were a threat. It's stringing loose and poorly understood facts together into an alarming story... when you could just talk to the folks. That's always my advice. Don't like Trump supporters? Talk to them. Harris supporters? Same thing. people mostly want the same things. It's just that half of them are relentlessly and implicitly demonized by our media apparatus.
OK, sure, we got two bad choices for president. One is a Mafia Boss (not a fascist, though Mussolini was both), the other seems vapid, and I don't know much about her besides that. The only thing I disagreed with you is that you think Trump is genuine. He lies alot and says things that he knows will piss off the politically correct. Is that genuine, or impish? As far as policy, I don't know if there is that much difference in policy. Presidents don't have much influence over inflation. Neither is going to do anything about rebuilding communities or Climate Change.
This is so true. What’s perhaps even more evil than the mainstream media intentionally misleading their audience with one-sided coverage, is the consequence that has of empowering their viewership to parrot the obvious contempt the mainstream media has for a growing majority of the population: Trump sympathizers. The mainstream media laughs at and others these subset of the population, so their viewers do to! How are we ever supposed to understand each others’ values and grievances in this country if this keeps up?
I agree. I was talking to some folks who were afraid evangelical Trump supporters would take over the military and despotize Trump. Aside from a complete ignorance about how our military or coups work these were clearly people who had NO idea what evangelicals were like or what they believed.
It would be as if I read that Muslims support the concept of Sharia law (true) and Sharia law supports a Muslim theocracy (true) and Iran is a Muslim Theocracy (true)... so I decided that Muslims in Dearborn were potential fifth columnists in a war with Iran! And then read some articles about ISIS recruiting and protests and decided that these people were a threat. It's stringing loose and poorly understood facts together into an alarming story... when you could just talk to the folks. That's always my advice. Don't like Trump supporters? Talk to them. Harris supporters? Same thing. people mostly want the same things. It's just that half of them are relentlessly and implicitly demonized by our media apparatus.
I agree. This is their biggest offense.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-bigoted-republican
OK, sure, we got two bad choices for president. One is a Mafia Boss (not a fascist, though Mussolini was both), the other seems vapid, and I don't know much about her besides that. The only thing I disagreed with you is that you think Trump is genuine. He lies alot and says things that he knows will piss off the politically correct. Is that genuine, or impish? As far as policy, I don't know if there is that much difference in policy. Presidents don't have much influence over inflation. Neither is going to do anything about rebuilding communities or Climate Change.
https://iuval.substack.com/p/lipstick-on-a-pig