Sobering commentary on what today means. The heart of your column is this:
"The United States, once a beacon of freedom and stability for other nations to admire and emulate, has descended along with other nations into political conflict, sectarian violence, and threats against the lives of public officials ..."
Sobering commentary on what today means. The heart of your column is this:
"The United States, once a beacon of freedom and stability for other nations to admire and emulate, has descended along with other nations into political conflict, sectarian violence, and threats against the lives of public officials ..."
Our country was not like that in my formative years, even during the Civil Rights and Vietnam eras. There was some violence, yes, but not on the scale we have seen the past few years. And more importantly, people on both sides of issues generally understood the facts, but vehemently disagreed on the policies or actions being taken based on those facts. By contrast today, a substantial minority cannot even accept the truth of actual facts, but make up their own facts and fantasies about events, such as the 2020 election. How do we deal with such people who have no grasp of reality or an unwillingness to accept what is the plain truth about events?
Maybe it will take a generation for that deluded and insane minority to die off before we can get back to (mostly)respectfully differing on policies but accepting the facts that drive those policies. In the meantime, w e need to ensure that the country's democratic institutions survive and thrive going forward, else we fall into the abyss of tyranny and authoritarianism.
We have our work cut out for us in the coming year.
They are laughed at by the hard-core cultists...look at Breitbart, Daily Caller, Newsmax for the really serious threats. I spent today wandering through a Colorado thread full of seriously angry, demented Americans. I went to the Secretary of State's FB, Jena Griswold...dive in and get really scared over the ignorance, hate and love of 45...we are in deep shit, kiddies.
Here are the key right-wing media figures who rewrote the history of January 6
For the past three years, Tucker Carlson, Darren Beattie, Julie Kelly, Steve Bannon, and others have pushed a revisionist counternarrative that has undone the initial consensus about the attacks
Written by Jack Winstanley, Camden Carter & Payton Armstrong
Sobering commentary on what today means. The heart of your column is this:
"The United States, once a beacon of freedom and stability for other nations to admire and emulate, has descended along with other nations into political conflict, sectarian violence, and threats against the lives of public officials ..."
Our country was not like that in my formative years, even during the Civil Rights and Vietnam eras. There was some violence, yes, but not on the scale we have seen the past few years. And more importantly, people on both sides of issues generally understood the facts, but vehemently disagreed on the policies or actions being taken based on those facts. By contrast today, a substantial minority cannot even accept the truth of actual facts, but make up their own facts and fantasies about events, such as the 2020 election. How do we deal with such people who have no grasp of reality or an unwillingness to accept what is the plain truth about events?
Maybe it will take a generation for that deluded and insane minority to die off before we can get back to (mostly)respectfully differing on policies but accepting the facts that drive those policies. In the meantime, w e need to ensure that the country's democratic institutions survive and thrive going forward, else we fall into the abyss of tyranny and authoritarianism.
We have our work cut out for us in the coming year.
Outlaw Faux news
They are laughed at by the hard-core cultists...look at Breitbart, Daily Caller, Newsmax for the really serious threats. I spent today wandering through a Colorado thread full of seriously angry, demented Americans. I went to the Secretary of State's FB, Jena Griswold...dive in and get really scared over the ignorance, hate and love of 45...we are in deep shit, kiddies.
They have to be hit with still more massive defamation suits, yes, that's the way to "outlaw" them, along with the mediamatters.org treatment!
https://www.mediamatters.org/
Here are the key right-wing media figures who rewrote the history of January 6
For the past three years, Tucker Carlson, Darren Beattie, Julie Kelly, Steve Bannon, and others have pushed a revisionist counternarrative that has undone the initial consensus about the attacks
Written by Jack Winstanley, Camden Carter & Payton Armstrong
Published 01/06/24 10:12 AM EST
It's going to take longer than a generation with all these full of ignorance wishy washy newly minted voters.
At least start with the current generation entering school. Have to start somewhere, though it is a seemingly herculean task.