Friday, April 24, 2020

Different lenses.

So here is the thing that I have been considering today and contemplating as unanswerable, and yet still important. I have seen/read in different sources (news, Sojourners magazine) recently that literally more conservative Americans are receiving a different version on their news sources (Fox, etc.) of what 45 is doing and saying. One might say (and yes I am saying) that they are not being told the truth. So what I have been thinking about is: if they were being told the truth, or that which mainstream media is laying bare, and they were to see/hear that it is different than that which their own usual news sources presents, would that make a difference to 45's base? So to take this further: what I am really trying to figure out is, if his base was exposed to what it is that mainstream news sources (CNN/MSNBC) are broadcasting, and that base was to realize that it is different from what their own news sources are broadcasting, would they question their own news sources? Or just believe automatically that the mainstream is biased against the president? Since I believe the mainstream version of things that I hear/read everyday would they do the same with their own sources, or would they be curious as to why things are different? Are there truly groups of people in the United States so different from one another that what I am unable to accept as acceptable is truly okay with another group? Like, what is going to happen in November? Am I going to be stuck living in a country with this president still in office because other people in this country find his stupidity and his lying and his immorality acceptable?

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