01-28-2017, 12:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-28-2017, 12:06 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(01-26-2017, 11:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:
As with many of your posts, the above is a good example of demonization. Obama was depicted as a muslim terrorists and as a monkey. A hostile press with repeated propaganda can try to poison the public's mind, to build a vile stereotype of what a politician is really like. Alas, such efforts can to a great degree succeed. Extreme partisans are willing and ready to make any excuse to present their own leaders and being, wise and dignified while believing the worst of the other side's politicians.
I don't have a lot of sympathy with Trump when he presents the press as hostile. Hostile? If anyone opposes him in any way, be they press, beauty pageant contestants, gold star parents, whomever, he will attack, insult and demean. To a great degree he has earned a hostile press and deserves what is coming.
But as a continuous barrage of hateful propaganda seeps into a partisan group, the conversation is poisoned. Does the above caricature of Trump have any more merit that Obama as a terrorist? If the above reflects the alternate universe you live in, is there no wonder you can't deal with reality?
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