It's like being on point for the last so many years has just exponentially leveled up in many ways. Like there has been a great culling of common sense, principles, and very basic empathy over the last 10 years. I used to see myself as leftist through and through. The anti war left seemed consistent and very committed to their ideals from the Afghanistan war up until occupy, all the antiwar people I knew seemed bulletproof in their consistency. Then Trump happened and its like the madness never ended and possibly never will. Its as if the constant MSNBC Russiagate brain pounding followed by the COVID ultra-authoritarianism for the public good made many people I once respected irrational permanently. How much of it is illusory bot farm narrative manipulation, paid/blackmailed influencers, I suspect this is mostly how that happened. Now I see Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and a tiny handful of semi popular , definitely not MSM journalists such as Matt Taibbi, Eva Bartlett, Glen Greenwald, and Aaron Mate as the only people allowed to say sensible obvious things, and ask questions (like real journalists) that once would have been automatic on national news (probably not since the 1970s tho)? Former CIA applicant Tucker Carlson, unbelievable. Glad it's said anywhere to be honest. The older I get the more I realize I don't have all the answers, and the more I'm open to something new, some way of thinking that makes me different from the thinking that caused this schism. We can't fix all problems with hammers. Every problem is not a nail.
It's like being on point for the last so many years has just exponentially leveled up in many ways. Like there has been a great culling of common sense, principles, and very basic empathy over the last 10 years. I used to see myself as leftist through and through. The anti war left seemed consistent and very committed to their ideals from the Afghanistan war up until occupy, all the antiwar people I knew seemed bulletproof in their consistency. Then Trump happened and its like the madness never ended and possibly never will. Its as if the constant MSNBC Russiagate brain pounding followed by the COVID ultra-authoritarianism for the public good made many people I once respected irrational permanently. How much of it is illusory bot farm narrative manipulation, paid/blackmailed influencers, I suspect this is mostly how that happened. Now I see Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and a tiny handful of semi popular , definitely not MSM journalists such as Matt Taibbi, Eva Bartlett, Glen Greenwald, and Aaron Mate as the only people allowed to say sensible obvious things, and ask questions (like real journalists) that once would have been automatic on national news (probably not since the 1970s tho)? Former CIA applicant Tucker Carlson, unbelievable. Glad it's said anywhere to be honest. The older I get the more I realize I don't have all the answers, and the more I'm open to something new, some way of thinking that makes me different from the thinking that caused this schism. We can't fix all problems with hammers. Every problem is not a nail.