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Nuance and understanding. The "rise of right wing media" doesn't come up out of thin air, it appears because people don't feel connected to and valued by societ

Nuance and understanding. The "rise of right wing media" doesn't come up out of thin air, it appears because people don't feel connected to and valued by society. The divide deepens when people are less and less involved together (in person) because you forget that the face on the screen is actually a human being. Trump supporters will look at videos of Biden on YouTube or whatever, and wonder why everyone is turning a blind eye to Biden's obvious gaffs* when Trump got picked apart. As an Australian who looks over with great interest and humour, the only way i can watch American politics is through individual YouTubers who make short highlight videos of headlines and Biden clips. I'm sure many people there are the same. And it does two things: 1. Paints everything in a bad light. 2. Shows news sites (pick your flavour) glossing over or turning a blind eye to it. If you (as a country) are going to call every criticism, "hate speech" and "domestic terrorism" (my words) that is exactly what you get. ((It's like when you call a child "little monster" their whole life, you'll get a little monster as soon as they are able.)) * Biden and his administration seem to literally have dementia, armchair diagnosis comparing Biden and my late grandfather. I have no idea how he is fit for office

mola 4y ago
Well, you are basically saying ng you are exposed to US politics entirety via media. And the narrative you got is that Biden s administration suffers from dementia. So how is that different from Trump being picked apart? It doesn't matter what Biden will do, by now it's a meme to view anything he does in light of supposed dimentia. The narrative you propose as to why and how "rise of right wing media" is naive at best. I suggest something different, and I base it on my own country that is both highly influenced by US culture and ended up in a very similar place. The "rise" of right winged media is far from being some organic thing that just happened. In my country it was highly engineered. There was a massive influx of money coming from the US and directed to creating and buying media channels which you can very easily follow to being manuvered by a single person, the head of "right wing" politics. It's even more crazy than that, not only does he manage this media complex using governmental benefits for owners of these media channels he also gets them to continually redefine what is "right wing" and basically it has devolved to a personality cult, where if you are not loyal (as in mafia type loyalty) you are automatically a leftist. The narrative that the "other" population was left behind and that's why it's reacting is false. It doesn't matter how much the so called left side tries to be inclusive and ponder on it's own guilt of current affairs, it's at best being ignored and usually used as an admition of some primal sin that makes the "right" even more galvanized. These things are not organic, a huge amount of money without scruples is being spent to inflame a culture war.

mola 4y ago

Well, you are basically saying ng you are exposed to US politics entirety via media. And the narrative you got is that Biden s administration suffers from dementia. So how is that different from Trump being picked apart? It doesn't matter what Biden will do, by now it's a meme to view anything he does in light of supposed dimentia. The narrative you propose as to why and how "rise of right wing media" is naive at best. I suggest something different, and I base it on my own country that is both highly influenced by US culture and ended up in a very similar place. The "rise" of right winged media is far from being some organic thing that just happened. In my country it was highly engineered. There was a massive influx of money coming from the US and directed to creating and buying media channels which you can very easily follow to being manuvered by a single person, the head of "right wing" politics. It's even more crazy than that, not only does he manage this media complex using governmental benefits for owners of these media channels he also gets them to continually redefine what is "right wing" and basically it has devolved to a personality cult, where if you are not loyal (as in mafia type loyalty) you are automatically a leftist. The narrative that the "other" population was left behind and that's why it's reacting is false. It doesn't matter how much the so called left side tries to be inclusive and ponder on it's own guilt of current affairs, it's at best being ignored and usually used as an admition of some primal sin that makes the "right" even more galvanized. These things are not organic, a huge amount of money without scruples is being spent to inflame a culture war.