Both media sides like to whip their customers into a frenzy. And parties and individual politicians encourage it too. Enraged citizens are more likely to vote, volunteer, and donate.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I read a great truth that I posted on my desk top. It says: The truth about lies is that people believe them because they WANT to, not because the HAVE to.
Carrie wrote: I read a great truth that I posted on my desk top. It says: The truth about lies is that people believe them because they WANT to, not because the HAVE to.
I think that pretty much says it....
That's why CNN has any viewers at all. After Trump left, their ratings have tanked. They spent every hour of every day talking about how he was a colluder with Russia... now they just keep repeating the capital riot as if it was Japan dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Hilariously desperate to remain relevant.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy
