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Have you ever considered that maybe both the big "left" and "right" media is itself an echo chamber?
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Have you ever considered that maybe both the big "left" and "right" media is itself an echo chamber?
- emodendroket 9y agoIndeed, the points on which mainstream American "right" and "left" media agree with each other are more numerous than the points on which they disagree.
- losteric 9y agoWell I should hope so. A nation cannot exist without some social cohesion, Americans need to (and do) agree on most issues.
- emodendroket 9y agoIn a lot of the bipartisan Washington consensus stuff Beltway opinion is in lockstep with itself but not with average Americans.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world. -Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
- thebspatrol 9y agoI find that hard to believe. The American right wing and the general western left wing are MILES apart. I think the fact that there are people who unironically think that center-right Hillary Clinton is a "communist" is evidence enough of that. I mean I still live within the constraints of reality, and generally only read politics which are widely accepted. I think I'm getting a fairly broad spread by reading opinions that range from "deconstruction of class" to "this is a Christian country".