I have had enough.
I’m blaming the media whole hog for everything that is happening in our current political climate. We have a media system that is so hungry for salacious news and so utterly ill equipped to deal with it that we are left with a near certainty: Donald Trump will be the next president of these (formerly) United States and it will result in our country being further demonized in the international community and downgraded from a credit standpoint, because we can no longer be trusted to guide the ship as is.
I’m serious. Things are going to get worse and the media is going to make it worse because they don’t know how to act. I (foolishly) flipped on CNN and happened to catch an interview with a top Trump advisor and Dem. hot shot Austin Goolsbee. When Goolsbee said that Trump had repeatedly made attacking statements against women and hispanics the Trump aid–straight faced–said ‘When?’
I kid you not. What really bothered me is that the reporter mediating this conversation/interview did not follow up at all. That there is the real crime of this whole thing. The media is not doing their job because they don’t know how to deal with the stonewall nonsense of the Trump campaign.
Still, that was not the focus. The focus was Hillary Clinton’s emails and the violence of Trump protestors. The focus was on the people who won’t or cannot defend themselves. If you follow pro-white blogs (like I occasionally do) you will see an uptick in activity and support for the movement and that movement is centered around Donald Trump and his unwillingness to be PC. Things are getting worse and the media kind of loves it. Why? Because that creates an opportunity for more news and more story and they can tell the story, regardless of where it leads us and without bearing any of the responsibility.
The average person is a follower. The average American is a follower. We vote based on party for the most part (if we vote at all) and we get our information from a media that we deem to trust because other people who we do trust told us to. But what if that media is wrong? What if that media is generating a story that is more about their fear and unpreparedness than one that is based cold hard evidence and the preponderance of that evidence.
We are headed in a bad direction. Make America Great Again indeed. We do that by being a better more inclusive people, not by doing whatever it is we are headed towards now.