Do you personally feel you are stuck between two extremes politically, each side accuses each other of being "fake news" brainwashing the people, etc?

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How do you personally deal with it?

OpenClose · Accepted Answer

If the race is going to be tight in my state, I vote for the preferred party. Both suck. One is way worse than the other. Otherwise, I vote a minor party. 2020 was the first time I voted for a major party.

I also donate to groups that push for ranked-choice voting and the NPVIC, as well as find and support any other election reforms that focus on more public representation, allow more parties to exist, and eliminate corporate and monetary political representation. Bonus for making election day a national holiday.

I don't touch cable news networks with a 10-foot pole. It's funny hearing Fox viewers complain about the "mainstream media", when Fox News is EXACTLY what is meant by the "mainstream media". Not only are they the most viewed mainstream media outlet, they invented the model that MSNBC and CNN adopted later.

I don't think I've seen any sort of steel-man arguments. It's all strawmen. They decide who the "good guy" is, and then any and every argument that differs in the slightest is absolutely bludgeoned and bastardized into a cartoonish villain. This is the #1 thing that makes people think "everyone has gotten too extreme and I align with nobody." That's bull. If people could vote directly on the issues themselves, we find they vote more similarly than different. This so-called "news" is little more than trashy celebrity gossip a half-step above Jersey Shore, and has people voting for their favorite character in the show.

As long as this garbage continues, there is a very specific way our politics is broken: We only see one set of issues, and think the other set of issues doesn't exist at all. We don't have "Right-Wing" and "Left-Wing" solutions to climate change, illegal immigration, income inequality, insane healthcare gouging, racial issues, police issues, etc. One party thinks only a few of these issues exist, the other one thinks exactly the opposite. You don't get to choose between solutions to the same issues, you only get to choose which issues to even acknowledge at all. It's a way of making sure only the outermost fringes are represented, while killing off any agreement and nuance.

Sun_Kim-Ai · Accepted Answer

Yes, and that's why I chose a third way, a way that rejects both the left and the right of my country.

I have not be afraid to call them for what they are and advocate for separation of my region from the whole country, while also advocating for uprooting and kicking out both the traitorous, globalist leftists; and the fascistic, nationalists rightists.

fembotnpc777 · Accepted Answer

it's as if when my political apathy could be more, political people couldn't be louder and more annoying I don't know i call them things like "stupid"

dustybiker · Accepted Answer

Force a third part option. Encourage a movement.

RealMarek · Answer

If I’m faced with two crap candidates like the parties ran in Pennsylvania, I won’t vote for either. I moved to a small town and focus on local issues, and hope I can eventually help prepare the community for difficult times. For now though too many people don’t realize how bad things are going to get.

ArtemisSilver · Answer

No, I reject the concept of being a partisan and choose to be a free thinker.

I judge each issue as it comes and to the best of my ability and if in public office I would consider first the prosperity and safety of the people who've trusted me to representation them before any other concern.

I would seek to drag corruption into the light of day and set things right. I would help people build a future where we all thrive instead of drawing divisions and fighting over scraps.

BJP21 · Answer

This is how I view it whither its Democratic or Republican... If they are benefiting themselves they are not to be trusted. Taking large corporate pac money, fossil fuel lobby money that enables divided government because they want to be cognitively dissonant. They need to pack their shit and not be a servant of the people.

007kingifrit · Answer

the rhetoric of both sides might be extreme but once you realize that's just slogans developed organically by the people you realize to look at policy instead.

only one side has extreme policies, overly gentle on crime, trying to trans the kids, lowering our wages with immigration. trying to take our guns

the republicans don't have extreme policy

Anonymous · Answer

I deal with it by knowing to a certain extent this is how it's ALWAYS been since the founding of this country. The only difference is with the rise of the internet an social media now you can be bombarded by misinformation around the clock. Because the powers that be KNOW if you repeat a lie long enough and often enough it's understood as true.

exitseven · Answer

I used to feel this way but fortunately the democrats have gotten so crazy over the last 10-15 years that it is no longer a question who I support.

WhiteBoyChill · Answer

Its true though. Nothing the left says is true

ZenJen444 · Answer

Yes , but the democratic side seems to be worse with the whole "woke culture " and "baby killing".

Anonymous · Answer

But supporting the Right instead of the wrong

msc545 · Answer

No, I know what side I am on.

Noahzaid · Answer

Kill them all

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