Reply #12: You're not alone. [View All]

[Crabitha]

I think quite a few of us are feeling the same way you are right now. I've been called everything from a Marxist to a libtard and everything in between. Every single thing I was reading or hearing or viewing on the TV that was supposed to be news is really nothing more than infotainment designed expertly and successfully to sell advertisement. There's a reason that MSNBC and CNN emulate Fox news television by lining up a few hosts every night instead of actually reporting news. Fox has been successful because its strategy is based solely on profits. CNN started off trying to do real news way back when but the news cycle quickly got old and boring when it was 24 hours. I've watched MSNBC at times just to make myself feel better (Olbermann makes me feel better). But it's not real news. It's basically rabble rousing for dollars.

I am at the point where I am just totally disgusted with the increasingly loud, intolerant, ignorant, angry mob mentality that cable TV portrays as the every day American. So I quit. I quit the cable rabble rousing for dollars disguised as news and have dropped out of the fray for a while to regain my sanity. As long as the rabble rousers on Fox, CNN and MSNBC, etc., keep people whipped into a frenzy of fear and or anger, they will keep making their dollars and keep producing their frenzied furor.

I have had to stop it all, sit back and remember that I'm an anthropologist, have studied the human species over time and recognize, that this is all part of the cycle and that it always, always always comes down to ecology (read economy for today's terms). This swinging of the ever wobbly cantankerous pendulum to the right won't last forever.

I'm really happy to read all the things people have said here and know I'm not alone and that we're all feeling rather inundated. We will prevail eventually but only if we keep our wits and take a break now and then. And that is what I am doing. Like someone else here said, that doesn't mean I won't be voting.