You are a worthless piece of garbage. You are a worthless piece of garbage. You are a worthless piece of garbage… After a while, you start to believe that you are, in fact, a worthless piece of garbage. When done intentionally, it’s called brainwashing. The Chinese are doing it on a massive scale to the indigenous Uighurs. We abhor this kind of state-sponsored attempt to coerce millions into thinking a certain way, yet we have the same thing going in our own country.
Day after day, I read newspaper and website articles, listen to cable network morning shows and end of day “news” programs and see the constant barrage of “you’re a worthless piece of garbage” thrown at our President. Headlines are slanted to portray the content in a way that casts negativity and any retort or positive aspect is buried in the article. There is a dearth of any fact-based news on actions this administration, at the direction of this President, has taken and the extremely positive outcomes of those actions. So, I get why there are a lot of people who think this guy is the worst thing since Milli Vanilli.
Trying to get people to see an alternative story is very difficult these days. It goes both ways. I have friends who only watch FOX and listen to Limbaugh. I have other friends (at least I’d like to think they are still my friends) who only watch MSNBC and CNN and get most of their “news” from Facebook. Very few read newspapers or on-line content anymore. When you only hear one side, it is easy to understand why so many are intractable in their thinking, one way or the other.
There is so much to learn by listening to people of a different cloth. What a shame that we have lost that curiosity.
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