Yeah you have some points there.
The media usually force feeds us our choices for Republican or Democrat. Usually I think they are both candidates who will toe the line, so the media is fine with either. It is during the nominee process that you see this media attack crap occur to kill off candidates they don't want to be the nominee. "X is not electable". Sure he is not electable, because you won't let us know about him. You're telling us right there who we can/cannot vote for.
As to normal presidents.
How wise is it to continually have presidents that are trained to lie, and to represent their client even when the client is guilty?
What would you expect someone to do with those skills once they are president?
Yet that is a common type of president we elect. A skilled liar, I mean lawyer, and if they are charismatic that is better.
Yet who is their client? It is not the people.
I see the divisiveness in the USA like sports team worship. People have their favorite team and even when they are losers the fans will still support them. We gotta get past this conditioning - both parties are useless to the US citizen. Both parties work for the corporations and the corporate media just fills us with propaganda and continues to divide us.
The US citizen is so easily lead because they are lazy and they trust their Televisions more than their own mentality. A good example is Sanders pushes Single Payer and he's called a socialist, a commie, wants everyone on welfare,.... Less than a year later 67% of the USA want Single Payer like the rest of the civilized world. The sick part is the US citizen is so dumb about their own history that they don't know that Europe has all these benefits because of the USA. Look up FDR's Second Bill of Rights on YouTube. We would have had this 70 years ago if FDR hadn't died. What the USA did do though was apply FDR's ideals to Europe in the form of the Marshall Plan.
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The thing is I am not rooting for either team.
Yet I am very very tired of the mainstream media pushing speculation and claims as though they are fact and the public at large often takes that speculation as though it was fact.
Opinions are not facts. All speculation is is opinion.
They could be factual, but without evidence all we can do is see them as opinion.
I ask questions about Trump because I can see how the bias is heavily slanted against him and people are treating speculation like fact.
They are treating people that say "we have evidence" as though that IS evidence. It is not actual evidence until it appears. Until then it is just words. I can tell you the sky is pink... that doesn't mean it is.
I really am no Trump follower. I despised Hillary, but there were other people running I didn't completely dislike. I also voted third party anywhere I had a choice.
My problem with Trump is the so obvious onslaught of bullshit attacks. There may be some legit stuff, but it is mixed in with so much bullshit it is hard to find it. ;)
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I agree which is why I am wondering about all the war drums beating against Russia anyway...
People who don't know about McCarthyism ready to pursue it again.
Anti-Fascists claiming to be such that are acting 100% like the historical fascists they claim to be against.
Sanders promising free shit when there is no free. We pay for it by force in the form of taxation. People think because the government does it, it is free. The government can't do anything for free. All it really is, is stealing from other people to give you something.
History is interesting... there are a lot of mistakes made that we should learn from.
Yet history in schools are largely taught as propaganda. They rarely spin your own country as an evil place. A great book that is worth reading and an eye opener is "The Lies My Teacher told Me" It was written by a historian and teacher and the things they DIDN'T tell us about are pretty astonishing.
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