| > If you vote for a person who explicitly .... then that says something about your own personal philosophy. I'd suggest 1984. Democrats do horrible things Fox News reports on. Republicans do horrible things NY Times report on. Each side votes on different information. In most cases, the information isn't even wrong (although sometimes it is). It's just that major politically-inconvenient things are simply omitted. This isn't just the US with the red/blue split. The whole world is going with personalized they-are-the-enemy news. I see the same think happening in many countries with completely different ideological divisions. > Labelling a private company's platform as a pseudo-public forum is also at odds See Standard Oil and friends a century ago. > ...if an unarmed black person gets killed by a cop... Which happens, but not a statistically significant amount. There is a much bigger problem with the criminal justice system (see The New Jim Crow for a good analysis), but it can't get fixed, in large part due to corruption on the side of the Democrats. The Democrats talk a good game, but are mostly against justice system reform. Law firms donate to Democrats, and anything which reduces the influence of money on justice consistently gets blocked by Democrats. Police issues are more complex, with corruption on both sides (I'm sure you're familiar with the red side, but Democrats have strong union ties, including police unions). > how many school shootings? Not a statistically significant amount. If you want to save kids, improve road safety and have more COVID precautions. Seriously. I'm not a Republican (let alone a hard-side one), but I do read both sides of the media, and both sides ignore facts, science, and reality. Don't get me started on Democrats and charter schools. That's the biggest evolution / climate change of liberals. |