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A Country Divided

Is the media to blame

  • Yes

    Votes: 24 57.1%

  • No

    Votes: 18 42.9%
  • Total voters
    42
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rickc

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How did this happen?

Is the media to blame?

With all the commentary and opinions broadcast in what is so called news today have they created an environment that brings about all these radical extremes?

Or do people seek out news sources that support their own deep seated positions on the issues.

I wonder where our country is headed. We certainly are not addressing the issues that will improve the lives of the majority of Americans.
 
rickc said:
How did this happen?

Is the media to blame?

With all the commentary and opinions broadcast in what is so called news today have they created an environment that brings about all these radical extremes?

Or do people seek out news sources that support their own deep seated positions on the issues.

I wonder where our country is headed. We certainly are not addressing the issues that will improve the lives of the majority of Americans.
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Picking someone on the basis of “triggering the libs” will do that.
 
Is the media to blame? Yes.

Are they the only ones to blame? Absolutely not.
 
I know this is going to trigger many on the left, but if the mainstream media didn't parrot the destructive identity politics memes voiced by democrats and their supporters, we wouldn't be in this contentious and potentially explosive situation that we now find ourselves in.

Let the attacks begin.

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Yes, the media had a hand in it, but it does not fall on them alone.
 
Grim17 said:
I know this is going to trigger many on the left, but if the mainstream media didn't parrot the destructive identity politics memes voiced by democrats and their supporters, we wouldn't be in this contentious and potentially explosive situation that we now find ourselves in.

Let the attacks begin.

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Case in point.
 
rickc said:
How did this happen?

Is the media to blame?
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Which media?

All of it? <-- exactly who is "all of it" ?

Right wing media?

Left wing media?

Foreign media?


Seems to me the "media" that started the run-away freight train of fearmongering insanity was the rabid right-wing media types like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Beck and that ilk.
Also, let's not forget the NRA as a fearmongering system of democracy that's proven quite effective.


Is the bigger issue that we see now just the advent of 24/7/365 streaming of "events" over TV, and the internet?
Is it more about the "hunger" or "expectations" of the feeding public to get information instantly, even if that means not getting all the "correct" information in that very instance?

Maybe it's not so much the media's fault, and it's all about the "live" access to worldwide information?
 
Trump is ultimately to blame.
 
Grim17 said:
I know this is going to trigger many on the left, but if the mainstream media didn't parrot the destructive identity politics memes voiced by democrats and their supporters, we wouldn't be in this contentious and potentially explosive situation that we now find ourselves in.

Let the attacks begin.

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In the United States, which coalition is more diverse, American liberals or American conservatives?
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
In the United States, which coalition is more diverse, American liberals or American conservatives?
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The only point that matters is that liberals hate the Constitution because it gets in the way of their implementation of socialism.
 
haymarket said:
Trump is ultimately to blame.
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While on the surface your post is absurd, there is a nanoparticle of truth in it.

Because the election of President Trump stopped the march of Progressives, the response by them is to tear the country apart by threat, and efforts to destroy people via lies and distortion.


So, in a very round about way, President Trump was the catalyst, but the reaction and result is the left, because division and identity politics is all they got going on.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
In the United States, which coalition is more diverse, American liberals or American conservatives?
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Good point. Republicans are about as diverse as a jury in a 1925 case in the South.

Or is that a 1960 case in the South?

Or is that most 2019 private country clubs almost anywhere?
 
haymarket said:
Good point. Republicans are about as diverse as a jury in a 1925 case in the South.

Or is that a 1960 case in the South?

Or is that most 2019 private country clubs almost anywhere?
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Now who is employing stereotypes and sounds like a bigot?
 
OpportunityCost said:
Now who is employing stereotypes and sounds like a bigot?
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Sometimes its hard to look in the mirror and see ones own faults when they are so busy cataloging everyone else's….

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ocean515 said:
While on the surface your post is absurd, there is a nanoparticle of truth in it.

Because the election of President Trump stopped the march of Progressives, the response by them is to tear the country apart by threat, and efforts to destroy people via lies and distortion.


So, in a very round about way, President Trump was the catalyst, but the reaction and result is the left, because division and identity politics is all they got going on.
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Trump is tearing the country apart with threats and efforts to destroy people via lies and distortion.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
In the United States, which coalition is more diverse, American liberals or American conservatives?
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If your question had anything to do with the topic, or my comments, I'd gladly address it... But since it doesn't, I'm going to pass.

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Carleen said:
Trump is tearing the country apart with threats and efforts to destroy people via lies and distortion.
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LOL

No, he isn't.

But I appreciate you believe you have to do your part to push that narrative forward.
 
haymarket said:
Trump is ultimately to blame.
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Obama was Trump's fault too. Trump even framed himself to take the fall for colluding with the Russians that never even happened, and then for obstructing an investigation of that non-event. He's nuts. We gotta get him locked up before he changes that hair of his into an Afro. Enough is enough.
 
ocean515 said:
LOL

No, he isn't.

But I appreciate you believe you have to do your part to push that narrative forward.
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Yes he is. When he constantly lies and degrades people that is not going to unify the country. He loves pitting people against each other. Tell me how he is unifying the country. What do you think he is doing to bring people together.
 
Grim17 said:
I know this is going to trigger many on the left, but if the mainstream media didn't parrot the destructive identity politics memes voiced by democrats and their supporters, we wouldn't be in this contentious and potentially explosive situation that we now find ourselves in.

Let the attacks begin.
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Grim17 said:
That isn't an attack, it's an opinion I reached through observation.
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Bringing the two quotes together for context.

"Destructive identity politics" is not exclusive to Democrats. Anything in politics based on something someone identifies by qualifies including religious ideologies. The country is already divided and has been going back to our inception as a nation, the point of the question is what amplified those divisions.

I contend that the media is an active participant in division oriented politics, and by extension that includes any identity politics even if that group is the majority.

The issue is they are not the only participant.

Apart from right leaning and left leaning media and commentary, we already have identity politics through various political organizations up to and including the front running two political parties in this nation. What you call destructive in your counterparts, they contend the same with your ideologies.

The other thing that people tend to ignore is media and commentary has always been harsh of opposition. This is true now, was 100 years ago, during the time of the civil war, and was equally true around the time of the signing of the Constitution. The only difference is means of delivery of media and commentary, but we should not kid ourselves into thinking they were nice to one another back then. Even if what we call media today was called something else back then.

It has always been us, how we identify and what we expect governance to do to someone else we'll probably never meet in person. Identity politics is not about who we necessarily are, it is about how that ends up used at the hands of government based on majority voter sentiment in marginalizing some other minority.
 
Divide and Conquer

Republicans have done a great job defining Democrats as the party of the minorities. Now in the next election it will be all about the Democrats and Socialism. Due to this labeling the Democrats have lost a base that should be firmly in their camp. The white middle/working class.

Republicans have firmly consolidated that white middle/working class by playing on their inate fear of losing their class status. They see their standard of living crumbling before their eyes. The republicans have given them an enemy to blame it on.

Reality is the Republicans are the party of the rich and powerful. The CEO's and bankers. The investor class. If you look at the true actions of the party, tax cuts, deregulation, health care, environment, etc those actions always benefit the profit takers.

Nothing they actually do, now i am not speaking of the empty promises of an election year, benefits the majority of Americans.

But they have masterfully positioned the party to be the ruling party for a long time to come.

The Democrats have nothing to combat the Republican rhetoric. Only those who can see through the propaganda can see the truth.
 
Carleen said:
Yes he is. When he constantly lies and degrades people that is not going to unify the country. He loves pitting people against each other. Tell me how he is unifying the country. What do you think he is doing to bring people together.
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Again, I know that is what the left's MSM propaganda ministries claim, so it appears their target audience buys into that, and pushes it forward.

It's the only thing they've really go going on. I mean, what's the core message for 2020? It would appear, "Trump sucks, is racists, is misogynistic, etc., etc., etc..

Not sure that's going to fly outside of the core group of people the propaganda is targeted to.
 
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