You don’t have to watch the endless, exhausting, meaningless political shows or pay attention to pundits who make an exorbitant living offering up bad faith, politics-as-a-game takes and “analysis.”
It’s an industry. A racket. Turn it off, find out what’s actually going on.
It’s an industry. A racket. Turn it off, find out what’s actually going on.
Politics has been turned into spectacle, a reality show that fuels round the clock reality TV shows and an entire population of people who afford four homes off worthless, status quo protecting garbage.
We have to choose to be better and reject this nonsense.
We have to choose to be better and reject this nonsense.
Political entertainment is designed to make you feel like you’re watching a scripted TV show where you get to weigh in every two to four years, a phenomena almost completely beyond your control.
It’s heartless and cynical and has done unfathomable damage.
It’s heartless and cynical and has done unfathomable damage.
The same goes for social media. This site is just riddled with constellations of people who offer nothing but lukewarm spit that serves no purpose but to enrich themselves while making politics feel immovable, distant, and entrenched.
Do better. Learn from the past few years.
Do better. Learn from the past few years.
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