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We are going to keep buying the boogeyman as long as the media and politicians sells it to us. One of the only things both republicans and democrats can agree

We are going to keep buying the boogeyman as long as the media and politicians sells it to us. One of the only things both republicans and democrats can agree on is war. They will debate and argue about children drinking lead in Flint, but bombing some small country on the other side of the world and increasing the defense budget and lining the pockets of the defense contractors will always have bipartisan support. One of the only things both foxnews and cnn/msbnc/nytimes/wapo/etc can agree on is war. They'll call each other fake news and poison the minds of the american people with divisive rhetoric for ratings, but when it comes to war, they'll set aside their differences and speak in one united pro-war voice.

nkozyra 8y ago
> We are going to keep buying the boogeyman as long as the media and politicians sells it to us. That's the saddest part. The media is the one entity theoretically equipped to shine light on these things. And it's just fallen down hill in a race to the bottom the last two decades. And for that we must also place some blame on ourselves. We're less and less likely to support good journalism and gravitate to fluff and fake(-able) news ("Who needs newspapers? I get my news from Twitter"). We cannot shift blame exclusively outwards. We are not discerning consumers of information.