What are the implications of people clustering in Sean Hannity's America, or Rachel Maddow's?

“There are fewer people in the middle. And so politics becomes less about solving our problems anymore. It's about cheering for our side. And so we're stuck.”

  • bewts [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Its completely awful - and made worse by the fact that they're so smug about it.

    I'll drop my roomate off at work sometimes and I'll throw on NPR for like the 5 min car ride and there's a decent chance I'll be mad before we get there.

    He's a normie and probably thinks I've lost it.

    But I do get a kick out of exclaiming "lets see what the goddamn liberals are up to" as I tune in to the station though.

    • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      3 years ago

      The worst part about NPR is the smug assuredness it gives it's listeners that they are actually the most enlightened politics understanders. At the very same time NPR won't question pretty much any state talking points until far into the future when it was obvious the decisions the US state made were awful.

      I say this as someone who listened to NPR nonstop on my way over from being a staunch religious conservative. It's real bad looking back.

      • theship [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        That's the secret to NPR: ingroup membership. It doesn't represent the country because that's not its job. NPR's job is to reassure liberals that they're part of a big tribe that's always right. Feels-good-man.jpg