I had to ask myself the other day if politics have gotten more divisive or am I just older and more aware and finally part of the target audience? I am unsure. Long have there been canyon-esque divides between the parties and I’m certain the vitriol level was often high. The Obama campaign represented a significant turning point, as racial fears were closely married with political discourse in the rise of Fox News and its kin. It can be effective to go negative, as this article points out..
Picking a president is not just about the candidates’ strengths but also about how their weaknesses can manifest themselves. Imagine if, in 2000, Al Gore’s advertisements had hit George W. Bush hard over incompetence on foreign affairs and as a trigger-happy cowboy. ~Politico
Yet the problem we face in modern politics is the echo-chamber of online media that serves to shield the people from any and all aspects of a reality different from what their party wants to portray. That reality is reinforced through every socializer that those in power can find. It hits you in church. It hits you among your friend groups. Your family is often a reinforcer. In truth, the only places it doesn’t (or is not yet guaranteed to) hit you are the places where the Republicans are determined to make it hit–work and school. The plan of the right is to make most major governmental “cog” positions political appointments. The plan that has been effective in many states is to control what is and is not taught in schools in an effort to reshape the reality and the history of this nation. To
In 2021, the Texas Legislature enshrined a ban on public schools teaching that “the advent of slavery in the territory that is now the United States constituted the true founding of the United States” — a reference to the acclaimed 1619 Project from the New York Times. Texas schools are also prohibited from teaching that “slavery and racism” were part of the “founding principles of the United States.” (University of Houston Public Media)
Now you could look at the above as splitting hairs, or you could consider it a gateway statement in terms of how we codify slavery in the US. I choose the later as a futurist, because when I look at debt solutions and this history of chattel slavery I continue to see how we are inching towards a community of wage slaves. There is a fundamental difference between the parties as of late and that difference is more and more of a social one than anything else. Unfortunately we don’t get to see it like that because it is generally portrayed in the light of freedom. However, that freedom is riding on the back of fear. Fearmongering is the soul of at least one of the two parties at play here… I don’t think I need to tell you which one, but just follow the voice screaming Migrant crime.