Tom MacDonald

[Dill]

(10-24-2021, 09:44 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Elect is a fantasy when you have to choose the lesser of two evils. But in a country that’s as divided as ours, I truly believe there is a goal between the government and the media to keep us divided, even if they must use lies and misleading info to do so. 

Democracy is always going to be a choice between the lesser of two evils. The last two elections one has been very much less than the other, not that hard.

But my question concerns the reference to "government" as somehow a player separate from parties and the people who elect their candidates.

Government is only a tool, and it clouds analysis to speak as if some separate but unitary, monolithic entities called "the government" and "the media" are playing us all and keeping us divided. 

Whatever you take as evidence of "division" can surely be traced back to individual candidates, parties, and media commentators. 

E.g., it isn't "the government" that warns us constantly that Critical Race Theory is taking over schools, or that the election was stolen from Trump. That is the kind of thing I see as "divisive."   Also only one sector of the media supports that, so there is no "the media," but many different media voices speaking.