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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
I don't doubt the US and their people are facing some serious issues, but this thread illustrates perfectly how easy it is for people to buy into the BS that their team is their team and the other side (whoever they may be) is simply evil. Doesn't help that the same small groups of billionares influencing public policy are also those that influence/own the media.
When you control the message...
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
Malcolm X
It's too bad the US will not see a 3rd party take power. The US could get away from their Bush/Clinton dynasties and Fox news and MSNBC wouldn't have anything to talk about.
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I'll stop thinking "the other side" is evil when they stop spending billions of dollars to further evil agendas.
When they stop trying to prevent low income women from accessible healthcare. When they stop trying to keep the EPA from keeping any kind of healthy standard of air/land/water quality in this country. When they stop blatantly ignoring proven science. When they stop pushing for tax cuts and loopholes for billionaires while also refusing to raise the minimum wage to something less draconian. When they stop telling me that owning a gun is a right but access to healthcare is a privilege.
Both sides have nutjobs, of course. But the per capita of nutjobs on the right is way higher, and their agendas are more detrimental to the bottom 90% of this country than the left's nutjobs.