Add my "what went wrong" take to the pile

[love_katz]

86. Hmm. I have a quibble with how you're presenting your point.

Liberals do not have any kind of mainstream media that widely presents our side of the issues. We don't have the megaphone of FOX or any major media corporation. The corporate owned media has been both-siding issues to death, going back to the 1970's. Podcasts and the blogosphere exist because they are one of the few sources that do present a liberal point of view.

Saying that the current problems exist because people are too siloed regarding their information sources smacks of blame the victim.

Those of us who will be harmed the most by the misogyny and tyranny of the republican fanatics do not have bags of wealth to buy our own media company.

I don't have any answers about how to fix the problem. Even if we offer a media channel with more accurate information, these bigots are stubbornly fact resistant. They could have changed the channel, or they could have tried interacting with people who are different than them, so they could check out whether " those people " or those femmonazis are really as awful as they have been taught. But, sadly, we know how they react. They go right back to their prejudices and hate.

The problem is that there are a significant number of people who think that they will benefit from a system that oppresses anyone they don't like, and they welcome it. Poison goes where poison is welcome ( quoted from Terry Pratchett).

The people who voted for this horror will have to experience for themselves that oligarchy does not usher in peace and prosperity.

Unfortunately, many good and innocent people will have everything we have worked for taken from us, and many people will die. This is like the Covid pandemic, except that it is a disease of our collective minds and spirits.