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Originally Posted by Lathum
Do you not consider Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, patriot radio, infowars, Briebart, and the various personalities associated with those programs right wing?
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Various degrees, but yes. Just as I consider The NYT, WaPo, CNN, PBS and the broadcast networks and their various personalities left wing, by various degrees.
I try to read a variety of sources, but I do not claim to have all the answers. Sometimes, even Brietbart is probably right, though you have to wade through a lot of bs if you go there. Sometimes, even CNN is right, though all they run in the evenings seems extreme.
I'm just a person. I don't want to align myself with a brand or a news channel or a web site. The world seems more complex than that.
In this case, trying to read as much as I can, I think we've gotten ourselves into this for three reasons. One, because people seem to think it's OK to let countries in Asia (and for this purpose I'll include the majority of Russia's territory, which is in Asia) burn our fossil fuels for us. You don't have to be an expert on Hegel's philosophies to understand that transfers a lot of political power.
Two, because we insist on looking at the world through a US lens. That worked for a long time, because we pretty much saved the world 75 years ago. And awful foreign policy decisions, particularly since the Cold War ended (but Vietnam would count) has squandered that. Putin gave us some insight into his lens last year and it's a scary look - not one that we can ignore today. He simply doesn't care about the Ukrainian people, or, really, his own people.
And three, because we are so divided as a people right now. We let our media and our politicians divide us over issues that really shouldn't be that bad. If we are concerned about increasing crime, then one side calls us names and the other side uses the crime to accuse the other side of wanting to destroy society. The result being we can't talk about crime at all. If we're afraid to talk about anything except in these extremes, our lenses are quite astigmatic. As is Putin's, but in a different way.
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R - I think we're fucked.