I hear you. I can no longer watch or read the MSM because it makes me feel like visiting a re-education camp. So I let Caitlin, Taibbi, Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, etc. do the watching and critiquing for me. However, Tucker Carlson does appeal, but only because he is the only MSM host (I’m aware of) who occasionally invites Greenwald and Dore as guests. But that does not mean I have developed a leaning for the right or think the right “less dangerous”, because I find the entire left/right framing as the root element of the psyop known as The Narrative. It's blind belief in the left/right framing that is dangerous.
Take away the left/right framing and most of us could have civil, even enjoyable conversations with people with whom we disagree, because outside that stage-managed world of the MSM and the scripted soundbites of our politician-hypnotists and their mass formation cults, natural humans are multi-faceted, far more complex, and completely unique (and often inconsistent) in their views.
Old habits die hard and I still frequently find myself using the thoroughly ingrained left/right framing, too. But I’m trying to break that habit because it seems to me that one of the most effective ways we can defend our individual and collective liberty is to completely reject the left/right nonsense.
The left/right framing is still used mostly because it's all we've got, and binary choices are so appealing to our brains. Our rotten and restrictive two party system still reflects this but anyone paying attention to politics in this post-Trump era can only conclude that such labels are only useful as tools for elitist framing. Better to have us fighting each other than hauling the oligarchs before tribunals, right?
So Trump is a Nazi and Biden is a radical left Socialist. Anyone still beating those left/right partisan drums should be given wide quarter.
I hear you. I can no longer watch or read the MSM because it makes me feel like visiting a re-education camp. So I let Caitlin, Taibbi, Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, etc. do the watching and critiquing for me. However, Tucker Carlson does appeal, but only because he is the only MSM host (I’m aware of) who occasionally invites Greenwald and Dore as guests. But that does not mean I have developed a leaning for the right or think the right “less dangerous”, because I find the entire left/right framing as the root element of the psyop known as The Narrative. It's blind belief in the left/right framing that is dangerous.
Take away the left/right framing and most of us could have civil, even enjoyable conversations with people with whom we disagree, because outside that stage-managed world of the MSM and the scripted soundbites of our politician-hypnotists and their mass formation cults, natural humans are multi-faceted, far more complex, and completely unique (and often inconsistent) in their views.
Old habits die hard and I still frequently find myself using the thoroughly ingrained left/right framing, too. But I’m trying to break that habit because it seems to me that one of the most effective ways we can defend our individual and collective liberty is to completely reject the left/right nonsense.
Very well said
The left/right framing is still used mostly because it's all we've got, and binary choices are so appealing to our brains. Our rotten and restrictive two party system still reflects this but anyone paying attention to politics in this post-Trump era can only conclude that such labels are only useful as tools for elitist framing. Better to have us fighting each other than hauling the oligarchs before tribunals, right?
So Trump is a Nazi and Biden is a radical left Socialist. Anyone still beating those left/right partisan drums should be given wide quarter.