Actually, I was surprised by the positivist tone...peacesrevengeNovember 2 2005, 23:29:34 UTC
I apologize for the forthcoming rant:
That last paragraph actually implied that Bush actually still has a shot to be remembered as a non-shitty president. Of course, I shouldn't say that, the heirs of the Reagan Revolution will remember him as one of the best... although he's probably a bit too liberal for them.
But the simple answer to your question is not to do with the media, but rather the overall climate of America. I mean, it's pretty hard for people in the news meda when they're basically cowed into submission and their credibility attacked at every turn, by a cut-throat archconservative political climate (not to mention conservative editors and corporate partners), and a populace who is way right of center.
America is easily one of the most (if not the most) conservative developed, industrialized "first world" nations. We have some of the strictest drug laws, we're the ONLY non-third world country that has the death penalty, and our policies on poverty are SO AWESOME that we have THE GREATEST wealth gap and highest infant mortality rates among "first world" industrialized nations. There are way more people here who believe that religion should play a mandatory role in government than there are in England and they don't even have separation of church and state! We have an Attorney General who believes international law is "quaint" and that human rights can be disregarded whenever we feel like it, and an Ambassador to the UN who doesn't believe in the UN.
But something that speaks volumes about the US is that out of all the countries that went to the Iraq, we were the only major partner where the overwhelming majority of people were overwhelmingly PRO-WAR. England, Spain they went. 80-90% of their people didn't want them to. I think that says a lot of bad things about people here not having bullshit detectors or worse, thinking that war is a game where real people don't actually get killed (and I suppose only 2000 "real people" did... Iraqis aren't human).
People here either are ignorant because they don't have sufficient access to information or choose to be ignorant.
Man, if I was a citizen of another country, I'd be laughing my ass at us right now, though. Bush has less than a 40% approval rating (and that probably includes 25% who are such ideologues that they would still support him if he started eating babies on national TV) and the Democrats shut down the Senate. Hmmm... those might've been things to think about LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME.
I'm saying this because I've actually thought about it and realized that I love this country that why I'm so upset and pissed off all the time. And probably always will be given the direction things are headed.
That last paragraph actually implied that Bush actually still has a shot to be remembered as a non-shitty president. Of course, I shouldn't say that, the heirs of the Reagan Revolution will remember him as one of the best... although he's probably a bit too liberal for them.
But the simple answer to your question is not to do with the media, but rather the overall climate of America. I mean, it's pretty hard for people in the news meda when they're basically cowed into submission and their credibility attacked at every turn, by a cut-throat archconservative political climate (not to mention conservative editors and corporate partners), and a populace who is way right of center.
America is easily one of the most (if not the most) conservative developed, industrialized "first world" nations. We have some of the strictest drug laws, we're the ONLY non-third world country that has the death penalty, and our policies on poverty are SO AWESOME that we have THE GREATEST wealth gap and highest infant mortality rates among "first world" industrialized nations. There are way more people here who believe that religion should play a mandatory role in government than there are in England and they don't even have separation of church and state! We have an Attorney General who believes international law is "quaint" and that human rights can be disregarded whenever we feel like it, and an Ambassador to the UN who doesn't believe in the UN.
But something that speaks volumes about the US is that out of all the countries that went to the Iraq, we were the only major partner where the overwhelming majority of people were overwhelmingly PRO-WAR. England, Spain they went. 80-90% of their people didn't want them to. I think that says a lot of bad things about people here not having bullshit detectors or worse, thinking that war is a game where real people don't actually get killed (and I suppose only 2000 "real people" did... Iraqis aren't human).
People here either are ignorant because they don't have sufficient access to information or choose to be ignorant.
Man, if I was a citizen of another country, I'd be laughing my ass at us right now, though. Bush has less than a 40% approval rating (and that probably includes 25% who are such ideologues that they would still support him if he started eating babies on national TV) and the Democrats shut down the Senate. Hmmm... those might've been things to think about LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME.
I'm saying this because I've actually thought about it and realized that I love this country that why I'm so upset and pissed off all the time. And probably always will be given the direction things are headed.
I feel only slightly better now.
~Steve
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