Politic make me nuts
Sep 7th, 2009 by Uncletoad
The polarizing attitudes in this country over the last 10 years are very disappointing. The divides in attitudes about politics between people have gotten larger and larger fed by media rhetoric, often untrue, dispensed by talking heads that rarely use fact to back up their opinions. This doesn’t help anything. It feeds the hysteria and widens the divide. Glen Beck and Bill Marr are both extremists asking us to move further away from each other in their own ways. It’s not helpful, it’s not useful, it’s surely not Christian as I understand it if that matters to anyone at all.
There are some monumental issues confronting the American public these days and instead of information and data we get “news entertainment”. We get polarizing talk shows none of which give us data, they just give opinion on data they cherry pick to interpret in whatever way suits their target audience. That is not informed discourse, it’s pandering; it’s bullshit served up on a huge platter in HD and then taken as fact by the sheep that can’t tear their eyes away from it.
Bill Marr isn’t fact. John Stewart isn’t fact. Keith Obermann isn’t fact. Glen Beck isn’t fact. Bill OReilly isn’t fact. Rush Limbaugh isn’t fact. They are all opinions with very little factual information to back up their rants.
I want real information and exchanges uncluttered by the ratings of the lunatic fringe on both sides and I’m afraid we’ll never see it. Mostly because it won’t fit into a sound bite. Mostly because people don’t want to spend the time to make up their own minds, they just pick a side and look for the propaganda that supports it.
It’s disappointing. It makes us look like stupid people.