At a national and state wide level our media is to blame.

At a national and state wide level our media is to blame.
by Limbosmullet (2023-12-28 20:00:59)
Edited on 2023-12-28 20:43:23

In reply to: And what exactly, would be a better process? posted by sprack

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The social news media general lack of judgement , loss of institutional memory (due to being in a failing business model) and their awful instinct to weigh unequal things equally has led to smaller and more mentally ill candidate pool for elected office.

Why would a successful / intelligent person subject themselves to some 24year old moron combing through the last 10-20 years of their private and public lives to find any silly misspeak or hint of an opinion that is no longer “in vogue”? Successful and qualified people have better options. The virtue audit of Oldspeak by a young journalist looking for clicks and outrage is really an enema that anyone with an option will avoid. Also yeah news media was bare knuckled throughout history but there were only a couple papers and magazines with a national reach and those papers had journalists and editors who exercised their judgement. Fewer outlets , better journalists ( with diverse viewpoints) and longer news cycles allowed for discretion and a better candidate pool.

Discretion is why today no one knows who the fuck Lyndon H. Larouche is but Alex Jones is a well known celebrity…

So today the candidate pool that we are left with are the narcissistic, grifters and power hungry fascists office holders we all know. AOC and MTG are two sides to the same lunacy.

For those who want to blast me for a false equivalence I’d leave you with this fact. In 2016 Biden ran in part because a bunch of dipshits carried around tiki torches on a college campus chanting “Jews will not replace us” and in 2023 we have a bunch of dipshit HR created “leaders”who can’t seem to find the intestinal fortitude to denounce some asshole snot nosed kids on their campuses who are calling for the “genocide of Jews”.