A Column Most People Will Hate: We Are The REAL REASON Politics is Screwed Up in America John Hawkins

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A Column Most People Will Hate: We Are The REAL REASON Politics is Screwed Up in America
John Hawkins
7/22/2017 12:20:00 AM - John Hawkins

What most people call a “truth teller” in politics is someone who repeats their dearest held beliefs and prejudices back to them. This is easy to do because SOMETIMES, those things are true. That being said, the vast majority of people seldom want to hear anything that challenges their beliefs. So they don’t read it; they don’t like it and they don’t share it with their friends. When media becomes a highly competitive business, which it is on both the Left and the Right, these stories become unprofitable and few people write them. Instead, they focus on stories that make money. In other words, if conservatives believed there were men on Mars, most of the hosts on Fox would be talking Martians all week while the hosts on MSNBC would be doing specials on Mole Men at the center of the earth if that’s what liberals believed in.

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[Sanguine]

We blame the media, but we CREATE the media. Liberals want to hear anti-conservative propaganda; so that’s what they get. Conservatives reward people who lie to us and worse yet, people who hate us. So much of what has gone wrong with our country from the conservative perspective comes down to that old saying, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Liberals are loud; we are quiet. The Washington Post pisses us off, but we don’t cancel our subscriptions. Hollywood stars come out against everything we stand for, but we keep watching their movies. Colleges openly work to brainwash our kids to hate everything we believe in and we send them there anyway. We might as well wear “Kick Me” signs.

Not sure who he is describing.  Not me for one.

[Free Vulcan]

Politically we are our own worst enemy, on many levels. Republicans are just as bad. We keep putting guys like McConnell, Murkowski, and Collins back in there and wonder why we get nowhere.