All media and all journalism is biased because humans perceive and report the news through their own understanding of the world around them. All history and all current events are simply myths of varying degrees of accuracy which the bulk of society agrees to accept and share according to their preconceived or received notions of the world around them. It is all distorted reality in the fun-house hall of mirrors.
The real problem is not bias but intentional partisanship in much of the media. That and the fact that most people don't bother to expose themselves to other points of view. Instead they prefer to live in a selective echo-chamber which reinforces prejudices and hardens opinions into the metal of ironclad convictions.
Excellent distinction between bias and intentional partisanship. Couldn't agree more.
Conservatives, liberals, libertarians, progressives and other ideologies are just political pigeon holes - labels that don't reflect the whole person. Such terms are tools for dividing folk so that their would be masters can rule them more easily. Like the colour factions in Rome who would on occasion kill each other over games and triumphs. Divide and conquer. What does it matter whether a liberal or a conservative unemployed you and your neighbours by outsourcing your jobs abroad?
Don't agree here, however. I self-describe as a white man which is a generalization. You cannot know my actual heritage from this statement yet my statement is still true. Further details would be needed for you to know my true self, yet you would have a general idea of what I might look like. When I self describe as a conservative, am I pigeon holed? I should only be generalized, and anyone else should simply be more curious about my particulars.
Americans need to come together and talk. Then they will realise that they're not that different from each other and that their real political enemies are not around them but above them. Organise and cooperate to make your communities and your country great for yourselves and your neighbours.
Need, yes. Possible only to the eternal optimist. There are many people that cannot be reasoned with. I, for example am hated by many people on this forum alone. Just for the incomprehensible crime of voting for Trump.
Don't expect your masters to do it, they serve their own interests. Those who would rule you look down upon the divided and squabbling masses and like the gods of Olympus they laugh, drunk with their own power and the people's impotence. You are all thrall to your divisions and are shackled by your enmity for each other.
This is the exact reason why I advocate for a return to constitutional principles, term limits, and massive shrinking of government via the mechanism of reduced taxation. No matter what you do, people in power like what they have. And they want more of it. I have been into the election machine, and met many of the politicians whose names you would know from my state. They all advocate for whatever gives them your vote in the moment, then act on whatever gives them power down the road. The only viable solution in my opinion is to severely restrict their power, as the constitution was intended to do.
Relearn the skills of neighbourliness, civil discussion and political compromise, which the fathers of your great republic used to forge a new, bright nation from a rump of the British Empire. It's not up to Trump or Ryan or Pelosi or McConnell. It's up to you all individually. Make a change and remove the political blinders which narrow your view and blind you to new possibilities. Love thy neighbour and be wary of government for the former is your ally and the latter is a dreadful but necessary leviathan.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
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