You are the typical bleeding heart liberal. Too kind, too soft.
You’re blaming the right wing media for ruining the country. Why not blame the people who consume the media. Don’t they bear responsibility? After all, they themselves would agree that the individuals are to blame for their behavior.
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From the Pew studies I’ve seen, the percentage of the population that is liberal and the percentage of the population that is conservative has remained relatively stable over the past few decades. What has changed is the number of people belonging to the two major parties which has dropped significantly.
I’m still trying to figure out what is going on here, but I think it is major. The conservatives are fed up with the Republican party and jumped at the first alternative that came along – Trump. This was driven, I suspect, by the changing economy. Charts show that jobs requiring a HS education are dwindling because of technology. The folks in rural areas that are HS educated really don’t want to hear that – they attribute the job loss to immigrants, to jobs going overseas, etc. And Trump played right into that. The rural HS educated folks aren’t about to move to the city to train for a new career. They want their old jobs back. And neither Trump nor anyone else can make that happen.
But the Dems are not much behind the Reps in terms of disarray. Look at the sad set of potential candidates on the Dem side. And the message is so muddy as to be nonexistent. Yes, I dare say you might see a revolt akin to what we are seeing from Republicans on the Dem side too. Who know what nutcase the Dems will run next time…I shudder to think.
It would all be fun to watch if it weren’t so damn important.
