pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
I find myself in agreement with Thomas Morrison, a rare enough event a bit too late. I might not necessarily phrase it the way he did and am cautious of conspiracy theory but he said that there are no real distinctions between parties and that a vast oligarchy is in control. There are times when you almost see it at work, but again, that's a slippery slope. But it is food for thought if nothing else.
I tend to take whatever the current political environment may be something less than seriously as a matter of my own mental health. Example, a family member is a shut in programmed day and night by CNN and will thunder from the mount regularly. To be fair, she's not the only one in the family to do so. We get FOX and sometimes MSNBC lectures too. Pick your poison. Have to pay attention and stay relatively well informed but to me that means deriving my 'news' from multiple sources, all of which have some bent to them obvious or not. I prefer several news apps and do not tweetbook or any of that.
History is my preference. True that it tends to become two dimensional immediately before the Langoliers gobble it up but in general we've had time to chew the cud and get the understanding that can only come with hindsight. I can look back several decades to ruinous decisions by members of both parties that have led us to where we are now and am not terribly surprised. As I have said and will continue to say, it's the immediacy of communication that we are struggling with that's at the root of many of our problems right now. News cycles and media influence always existed but not on this scale and with such rapidity.
Star belly sneetches and plain belly sneetches writ large. We're at one another's throats while others profit.
I tend to take whatever the current political environment may be something less than seriously as a matter of my own mental health. Example, a family member is a shut in programmed day and night by CNN and will thunder from the mount regularly. To be fair, she's not the only one in the family to do so. We get FOX and sometimes MSNBC lectures too. Pick your poison. Have to pay attention and stay relatively well informed but to me that means deriving my 'news' from multiple sources, all of which have some bent to them obvious or not. I prefer several news apps and do not tweetbook or any of that.
History is my preference. True that it tends to become two dimensional immediately before the Langoliers gobble it up but in general we've had time to chew the cud and get the understanding that can only come with hindsight. I can look back several decades to ruinous decisions by members of both parties that have led us to where we are now and am not terribly surprised. As I have said and will continue to say, it's the immediacy of communication that we are struggling with that's at the root of many of our problems right now. News cycles and media influence always existed but not on this scale and with such rapidity.
Star belly sneetches and plain belly sneetches writ large. We're at one another's throats while others profit.
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