Quote:All inflamed by a news media that has given up any pretense of objectivity.

Quote:All inflamed by a news and opinion media that thrives on conflict.  

 

Throw social media into the mix, and there you have it.

 

pirkster was right.  Specifically here is a quote from his post that is more true than people want to admit.

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radicals began to implement the Alinsky model to a higher degree than ever before.  From it, bore the radical groups Acorn and moveon.org, who are designed to break the system and bully the public into accepting their agenda against the will of the majority.  The end game being, eliminating the competition of debate and in turn, eliminating any dissent from their singular, narrow point of view.

 

It's not just groups like Acorn and/or moveon.org, there are far more radical groups both on the left and the right that are doing the same thing as well as current presidential candidates.

 

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Just look at the political bullying we're witnessing today.  Blocking roads and committing crimes to disrupt a candidate's rally is not voicing opposition.  Opposition is to be heard, and not destroyed.  That doesn't matter what side you're on.

 

We are seeing that right now.  I don't support Donald Trump at all, and I disagree with his politics, but blocking roads and disrupting rallys are nothing more than an attempt to silence the opposition and in turn silence free speech.  You also see it in some of the debates when you have candidates talking over one another and attacking one another on anything but issues.  You also have candidates attacking the moderators/media if they don't want to answer a legitimate and tough question.  Case in point, the very first republican debate and the exchange between Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly.  His response was that "she wasn't being nice to him" and that's what the big news story was.  Nothing was ever said regarding the question asked.

 

The media laps it up so that they can get their sound bites.  Certain sound bites/rhetoric is picked up and quickly spread on social media, and suddenly that's the "information" that people have when choosing a candidate.

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