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Date Posted: 17:19:34 05/23/12 Wed
Author: Popeye
Subject: Re: Hardly anyone watches liberal cable news
In reply to: Rufus Leaking 's message, "Hardly anyone watches liberal cable news" on 15:56:55 05/23/12 Wed

I have always viewed CNN as trying to play politics right down the middle. From the Left they are Right and from the Right they are Left. Like Dick Lugar, News moderates are less tolerated nowadays.

As a society, we have placed ourselves into groups that only meet and work with people of like mind, we only watch television shows and channels of a particular ideological bent, and we only read materials that agree with our point of view. We have gone from a society where we were exposed to varying ideas and concepts on a daily basis, into one where we have put on "news blinders" when it comes to alternate opinions. This situation is clearly disastrous when it comes to trying to get people to work together — Congress or otherwise.

The word "compromise" has become a dirty word because all "sides" have come to focus merely on "winning." The process of give and take, of thrashing things out, has become a lost art. To compromise would mean to accept, at least in part, another’s views on the world and for people stuck one particular worldview, this cannot be. So we end up with “my side is right and your side is wrong,” instead of “I see it differently from you.”

How do we fix it? I think the liberals and conservatives need to stop trying to force their ideas and opinions on everyone else! Most Liberals and Conservatives believe that the other is actively "trying to force their opinions on everyone else because they are.

Even getting a definition of Conservative and Liberal out of each tribe is impossible because even they cannot agree on their own label. Polarity Politics have overtaken the nation.

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