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I've heard an opinion from people on Team Right that "it's just our bad luck that we got stuck with the antivaxxers and Capitol stormers this time around, this

I've heard an opinion from people on Team Right that "it's just our bad luck that we got stuck with the antivaxxers and Capitol stormers this time around, this could just as easily have come from the other team". That's how I read this article's conclusion, and then the rest kind of works backwards from that conclusion: > It’d all be pretty innocuous if I didn’t worry that today’s progressive writer’s commune is also a breeding ground for tomorrows purveyors of reactionary fearmongering and misinformation. My own worry about the drying-up of print display ads and the end of classifieds, which led to the demise of the steady union career at the midmarket metro daily, and everything that happened afterward, is different. I worry not that people are reporting the wrong thing, but that there are too few people doing the job to even have a "right" or "wrong" set of journalists to read on a topic. In a US metro area of under 500k people there may not be any reporter who is going to open-to-the-public committee meetings and small-scale corruption can basically happen in public. This doesn't seem healthy for democracy.

zozbot234 5y ago
> "it's just our bad luck that we got stuck with the antivaxxers and Capitol stormers this time around, this could just as easily have come from the other team". The bulk of the "right" has been anti-intellectual for a long time - there are some sensible and nuanced points of view coming from that side of the political spectrum, but they've always seemed to be in the minority. You do also see a lot of anti-intellectualism on the left these days, especially with the new "woke" craziness, but that's a much more recent phenomenon and we have yet to see a proper reaction to it.
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- grapescheesee 5y ago
  You do understand, you just called out the "Right" (one of the 'two' affiliations) as .. "anti-intellectual for a long time" I also wish everyone told me their favorite color was the one I like.. Since we only have two colors in the world! It has just turned into such a reductionist petty immeasurably false set of talking points. We need to stop this, we need it to stop immediately!
ghaff 5y ago
And that's a midmarket city. You can imagine what reporting in most 10K to 20K towns looks like.

zozbot234 5y ago

> "it's just our bad luck that we got stuck with the antivaxxers and Capitol stormers this time around, this could just as easily have come from the other team". The bulk of the "right" has been anti-intellectual for a long time - there are some sensible and nuanced points of view coming from that side of the political spectrum, but they've always seemed to be in the minority. You do also see a lot of anti-intellectualism on the left these days, especially with the new "woke" craziness, but that's a much more recent phenomenon and we have yet to see a proper reaction to it.

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grapescheesee 5y ago
You do understand, you just called out the "Right" (one of the 'two' affiliations) as .. "anti-intellectual for a long time" I also wish everyone told me their favorite color was the one I like.. Since we only have two colors in the world! It has just turned into such a reductionist petty immeasurably false set of talking points. We need to stop this, we need it to stop immediately!

ghaff 5y ago

And that's a midmarket city. You can imagine what reporting in most 10K to 20K towns looks like.