General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Bush brought us 9-11. Donald Trump brought us COVID-19.
just the tip of the iceberg with republicans
niyad
(113,275 posts)Kitchari
(2,166 posts)Election was 11-8 but the next day in the early morning (2:30 or 3 a.m., as I recall) he was stumbling around on tv looking stunned, because no one, including himself, expected him to win
VOX
(22,976 posts)Why are Americans such gluttons for punishment? Why do they keep voting in these jerks?
Why are so many Americans checked out?
Why have a shocking number of Americans become so ignorant of facts and science?
Probable answers: first, long-time continuous Republican cuts in funds to education; next, talk radio and cable TV; then, social media and various ideological/nihilistic message boards.
These advancements have shut down the critical thinking capacity of susceptible individuals in some corners, theres no longer much interest in learning, when a talking head can spoon-feed information (served up in an addictive brew of fear and outrage) that lights up the cortex like a Roman candle?
Worse, the disinformation gets reinforced and embellished in like-minded message boards. How does one unplug this insanity? And if it cant be disconnected, how does one reality coexist with a vastly different reality, without the eventual breakdown of one of them?
Ive lost some sleep over this impasse, as it saddens me that my country the United States, in my lifetime, has reached a crossroads, one with a severe potential for realigning everything familiar into something dark and destructive.
Its Orwell on steroids.