I love the photo at the end. I stopped watching the news years ago. The news cycle seemed too much like a weird game show. Simon Rosenberg posted Kamala Harris's beautiful concession speech this morning, which I watched for the second time. This time, all those pent-up tears came pouring out. We passed up the chance to turn the page on fear, hate, bigotry, misogyny, and greed. Instead, America chose to return a felon, rapist, fraudster, and fascist to power. I didn't, but too many of my fellow Americans did. They flipping did it again. They drank the Kool-Aid to give more tax breaks and power to billionaires and corporations. They did it with enthusiasm. They did it in large numbers. And now they have done it to the rest of us. Fight back, I will, and so will the rest of us who didn't buy the conspiracy-laden party line. But I will never, as long as I live, understand why something like 53 percent of white women voted for an abuser. I can chalk up other voters to fear and macho misogyny, but white women, a group I am part of, voting for this nasty nothing burger--that is something I will never, ever understand. Truthfully, it makes me sick.
You are correct...we exist within self-chosen bubbles of information. I nearly vomit watching Faux "News" so I stick with ABC or NBC. Our local stations are owned by the big corporations, so they have limited information that can't be gotten off the internet in shorter time. Our newspaper is on its last legs...recently fired all of its morning delivery staff and went for having USPS deliver the paper whenever you normally get your mail. Who has time to read a paper that doesn't come first thing in the morning? Not me! Yet I know cancelling that subscription will result in even less local "free press". So where do we go from here? Still working on an answer...but it has to involve people getting to know each other outside their "bubbles"...otherwise it's fear and "we" VS "they" all the way.
I love the photo at the end. I stopped watching the news years ago. The news cycle seemed too much like a weird game show. Simon Rosenberg posted Kamala Harris's beautiful concession speech this morning, which I watched for the second time. This time, all those pent-up tears came pouring out. We passed up the chance to turn the page on fear, hate, bigotry, misogyny, and greed. Instead, America chose to return a felon, rapist, fraudster, and fascist to power. I didn't, but too many of my fellow Americans did. They flipping did it again. They drank the Kool-Aid to give more tax breaks and power to billionaires and corporations. They did it with enthusiasm. They did it in large numbers. And now they have done it to the rest of us. Fight back, I will, and so will the rest of us who didn't buy the conspiracy-laden party line. But I will never, as long as I live, understand why something like 53 percent of white women voted for an abuser. I can chalk up other voters to fear and macho misogyny, but white women, a group I am part of, voting for this nasty nothing burger--that is something I will never, ever understand. Truthfully, it makes me sick.
Your post captured the essence of the mis/disinformation system and how it captured us.
You are correct...we exist within self-chosen bubbles of information. I nearly vomit watching Faux "News" so I stick with ABC or NBC. Our local stations are owned by the big corporations, so they have limited information that can't be gotten off the internet in shorter time. Our newspaper is on its last legs...recently fired all of its morning delivery staff and went for having USPS deliver the paper whenever you normally get your mail. Who has time to read a paper that doesn't come first thing in the morning? Not me! Yet I know cancelling that subscription will result in even less local "free press". So where do we go from here? Still working on an answer...but it has to involve people getting to know each other outside their "bubbles"...otherwise it's fear and "we" VS "they" all the way.