What’s funny is that she’s right. He wasn’t political. He was just a normal decent person. He didn’t talk about Republicans (which I believe he himself was) or Democrats. So in that sense, yeah, he wasn’t political.
Really? But he was such a normal decent person? I assumed he was liberal or progressive or socialist because he valued empathy and niceness. He did not look down on people for their race, class, religion or abilities. He valued education. He genuinely cared for people.
The lesson I take from this is republicans used to not be sociopaths
In the 80s and 90s it was possible to have faith in the country. That the current administration was just a bad actor and we’d get it right next time. That we all kinda wanted the same thing, a functioning government and to lead our lives happily and privately.
Maybe it was true then. Maybe Fox News actually did poison the well, and people who once were rational are no longer so. Fear and hate blight rationality and the media cycle feeds on it. The more angry we are, the more we engage with social media. The more ads we’re served.
It’s wild that we’ll have to explain around campfires and cook stoves in the aftermath to whatever generation follows us that this was all in pursuit of ad revenue.
What’s funny is that she’s right. He wasn’t political. He was just a normal decent person. He didn’t talk about Republicans (which I believe he himself was) or Democrats. So in that sense, yeah, he wasn’t political.
Really? But he was such a normal decent person? I assumed he was liberal or progressive or socialist because he valued empathy and niceness. He did not look down on people for their race, class, religion or abilities. He valued education. He genuinely cared for people.
The lesson I take from this is republicans used to not be sociopaths
In the 80s and 90s it was possible to have faith in the country. That the current administration was just a bad actor and we’d get it right next time. That we all kinda wanted the same thing, a functioning government and to lead our lives happily and privately.
Maybe it was true then. Maybe Fox News actually did poison the well, and people who once were rational are no longer so. Fear and hate blight rationality and the media cycle feeds on it. The more angry we are, the more we engage with social media. The more ads we’re served.
It’s wild that we’ll have to explain around campfires and cook stoves in the aftermath to whatever generation follows us that this was all in pursuit of ad revenue.
I was just talking about the fact that he didn’t mention politics in that sense.