RE: In a world where they like us to believe there are only TWO points of view... what do you do?
I wanted to adress the topic labels:
I agree that it is one of the main reasons things are hostile nowadays. For every SJW movement there is an Anti-SJW movement, with femism on the rise you see MGTOW forming. It is not about discussing opinions and solutions nowadays, it is about joining a team, chanting together, marching in the streets together.
However I disagree that labels are really at the core of the problem, it is like prejudice a useful tool that gets exploited by the media, but also inside politics and even in school you get labeled and are expected and conditioned to behave accordingly.
When I say I am a nationalistic, liberal socialist, then I am trying to summarize my political believes in a few words. That does not mean I automatically agree or disagree with anyone on any topic and I am surely not bound by those words. If I get some day convinced that libertarianism actually works then I would be all on board. And I have to admit Ron Paul has a lot of persuasive arguments that I sometimes never even considered. Like on environmental regulations, where he wants to give the people the power to drag the plant owners in front of a court for polluting their homes. That might be much more effective than corrupt inspectors giving everything with enough money a pass. Btw did you hear about Hanford?
I don't believe I've heard of Hanford and I didn't cheat and go Google it.
https://steemit.com/nuclear/@crowe/nuclear-disaster-news-hanford-washington-update-may-13-2017
very little coverage makes me kind of suspicious
Yeah, a lot of smoke and mirrors. They are busy making us argue and fight over race, gender, etc by waving in that direction while in the other direction they are doing OR NOT DOING very important things. Much like a magician getting you to concentrate on one hand while they are doing something with the other.
I don't see anything wrong with discussing a trump tweet for 2 days straight in the news.
Trump has done some dumb things, but I don't think he is any worse that the presidents that we've had for awhile. I still believe he is far better than Hillary would have been based upon my research of her. I see most of this as a big back lash because the system of them choosing who would win and the MEDIA force feeding it to us didn't work this time. The game is not working the way it was planned, and I believe it has been a long time since it was out of their control. Thus the over emphasis on Trump. He could blow his nose and they will turn it into a big negative news story. There has always been SOME negative news against presidents in the past, but this level is unprecedented. It is many times the level it should be.
In fact it is almost like instead of focusing on "If it bleeds it leads" they are trying to force feed us anything negative they can think up about Trump both real and imagined.
the only thing that bothers me: They talk about him.
They should have known from what they did to Ron Paul that silencing works. John Oliver talked about Trump becoming President before he even officially announced. In fact during the whole campaign, even Hillary they all talked about Trump.
Either the establishment has become really stupid and clumsy or it was still all planned. Think of it as a plan B. I feel like a lot of people who actually just hate other cultures and ofc your everyday Republican are now running among the once anti-establishment driven Trump-Supporters.
Anyways Im still watching this video almost daily, just to clear up how i felt about the election. ;3 I am just very suspicious since Syria.
Edit: Wow! What happened there?! Sorry, for that English, no sentence made sense before the edit. I need to get some sleep! :D gn8
The difference between Ron Paul and Trump is Trump was already a television celebrity and he had a lot of money to throw at making sure he had coverage. This is why the tactic used on Ron Paul would not work.
And as far as Republicans... about the only faction you could say might hate other cultures is the Neo-Cons. There are Neo-Cons in the Democratic party as well. In fact, Hillary is very much like a Neo-Con.
Hillary is a Neo-Con. This secular talk guy on yt offers a great perspective on the struggle of the "progressives" against the neo-cons aka establishment within the DNC. Their story doesn't sound that different from yours with Ron Paul, Bernie got cheated as well after all.
I am not a big Bernie fan, he has some major flaws in his thoughts, but also in his actions. But as far as I can tell he is at least someone that uses arguments over rhetoric.