Still ranting. I guess it is just one of those weekends where everything feels slightly not great about the world and I curl into the beauty of my relationship as the last bastion of good things in the universe. Also, it’s mother’s day weekend so there’s that. Also I’m fatigued, so there’s that. I haven’t been sleeping all that well and I am moving from vacation to vacation quickly. I also didn’t bring my pills along for this one, so that is rough.
My pills. Being old sucks.
Fox News sucks too. I think that when you hit a certain age you start to become aware of the media being an actual problem. Fox News is an actual problem. The way their White House reporter shapes his questions is as politically one sided as it gets. So much so that when Press Secretary Psaki announced she was leaving, this exchange happened. Everyone in the room gets it. Everyone in the world ought to get that Fox seeks out people that hit key demographics and tokenizes them to serve as representative for their creed. It’s despicable what they do. It is despicable that so many people not only let it happen but tend to lean in so desperately that they are more than willing to believe any version of the ‘truth’ that aligns with what their so-called leaders are pushing.
The Big Lie, anyone?
The truth is thus: Our country is at another low point. We have fallen into deep partisan divisions heightened by the influence of social media. We know that a lot of that social media is falsehoods pushed on us by foreign (and domestic) enemies for their own gain. We don’t care. In fact, we often refuse to even admit what is happening.
We are in trouble.