One of our problems is that state and corporate media exists in a consequence-free environment, as do the politicians whom they serve (unless you count the dwindling audiences as a consequence of their growing worthlessness as news sources). The same lies get repeated endlessly; the same false predictions are simply replaced with new ones; track records of dishonesty are buffed to shining respectability.
One can take small comfort in knowing that at least their side must lie to exist; those who cling to this way of doing things must do so for sordid psychological reasons, but of course that realization never stopped bombs from falling.
On a somewhat related note, "...the CBC warns its audience about "westerners living in China with pro-government views" who act as social media "influencers" and were "invited on trips organized and often paid for by the Communist Party." Substitute congress-members for influencers and the Likud Party for the Communist Party and the danger of this actual problem of foreign influence on our government becomes clear.
One of our problems is that state and corporate media exists in a consequence-free environment, as do the politicians whom they serve (unless you count the dwindling audiences as a consequence of their growing worthlessness as news sources). The same lies get repeated endlessly; the same false predictions are simply replaced with new ones; track records of dishonesty are buffed to shining respectability.
One can take small comfort in knowing that at least their side must lie to exist; those who cling to this way of doing things must do so for sordid psychological reasons, but of course that realization never stopped bombs from falling.
On a somewhat related note, "...the CBC warns its audience about "westerners living in China with pro-government views" who act as social media "influencers" and were "invited on trips organized and often paid for by the Communist Party." Substitute congress-members for influencers and the Likud Party for the Communist Party and the danger of this actual problem of foreign influence on our government becomes clear.