(07-14-2023, 09:34 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-14-2023, 09:12 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I agree with all that, but it's also the splintering of the news media into so many pieces that people can choose whatever worldview suits them.  Then that's what they absorb and they have no understanding of what other people are seeing who have a different worldview.

Yes, this as well. Journalism is becoming a vanishing art. 

I sometimes wonder if a small scale uprising (for lack of a better term) needs to occur to remind people just how fragile our society really is and the value of empathy and magnanimity.

You would have thought January 6th of 2020 would have been enough. It wasn't apparently. I guess we'll have to wait on a conservative to get voted in next year and the Capitol Building gets attacked by Sam Smith types dressed up like Satan throwing rainbow colored sex toys at everybody before the powder keg finally explodes.

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