Looking for a succinct primer for those politically disengaged folks who are tuning out because "both sides have gotten so mean". Obviously the contradictions are heightening but how do you ease in a materialist perspective when someone is already so exhausted by "bias"

  • rubpoll [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Because our media is entirely for-profit and a divided, terrified, angry, paranoid, violent populace is significantly more profitable than not.

    NPR quietly pleading for civility will never overpower the fascist war drums of the Murdoch family.

    Division is profitable. Violence is profitable. Bringing the country to the brink of civil war is profitable. WWIII will be VERY profitable.

    And no you can't regulate the media's profit-seeking nature away when both political parties are capitalist to their bones. They are not going to nationalize the news media, they are not going to regulate their freedom speech, and if they tried, said media would annihilate whichever party tried and hand all power to the other.

    Polarization is profitable, and profit is the only thing that matters under Capitalism.

    You wanted lib-friendly so there ya go.