McTosh

[realthog]

 
Anyone who thinks they know anything about US politics based on the coverage given by the US mainstream media should urgently read this article. Jamison Foser is always excellent in his media analysis, and nowhere more so than here.

One campaign is talking bilgewater (e.g., and from a long long list, Iran is accused of aiding Sunnis), and much of the mainstream media is basically stenographing this crap. The other campaign is trying to make this a proper debate about the future the US -- and the world -- should have. The first campaign is whingeing about unfair media treatment, despite the facts on the ground. The second is saying little on the subject.

See? I'm not biased. I'm not saying which campaign is which.
 

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[realthog.livejournal.com]

"This country is standing on a precipice and doesn't seem to notice."

This amazes me, too. (See my second note in reply to sci_o_biscuits, above.) Even most of those who're desperate to see the back of Il Buce and despise his near-clone Il McBuce seem to think the current disaster is just, like, well, sort of a bump in the road: nothing too much to get worried about. There's no appreciation of the potentially historic -- or end-of-historic -- nature of the times we're living in. This may be the end for decades or centuries of the "democratic experiment" so far as the US is concerned. Of course, even that apprehension could be a trivium alongside what climate change may do to human civilization as a whole.

The biggest lesson of history is probably: There's no going back. There must have been imperial Romans who thought the Barbarians at the gate were nothing more than a temporary misfortune, easy enough to sort out, normal service will soon be resumed . . .