You put into words things I have been feeling and trying to articulate. For at least 20 years, but probably more, the right has been vilifying the left to the point that some people (i.e. lemmings) now truly believe that leftists all have horns and tails, and there is no way they will ever, EVER vote for a Democrat. Even if their Republican candidate is a serial sex abuser, wife beater, and child molester, he or she will get that Republican voter who has defined their lives by hating liberals and being racist. It saddens me to watch our country take this huge backward slide.
I’ve thought the same for over 20 years. MSM may mostly lean center left but they’ve never attacked conservatives the way right wing media attacks any and all liberals. I’m a lifelong Independent but was a regular and reliable GOP voter. Now I can’t even imagine voting for the best of Republicans. I think the party needs to be wiped out and a new center right party be formed by non-Trumpers.
More important than left-leaning right-leaning is striving to adhere to facts. Any publication that fails fact checks and never or rarely issues corrections or retractions is some level of propaganda.
if you haven't, check out Mediabiasfactcheck, which rates media for bias and factuality.
You put into words things I have been feeling and trying to articulate. For at least 20 years, but probably more, the right has been vilifying the left to the point that some people (i.e. lemmings) now truly believe that leftists all have horns and tails, and there is no way they will ever, EVER vote for a Democrat. Even if their Republican candidate is a serial sex abuser, wife beater, and child molester, he or she will get that Republican voter who has defined their lives by hating liberals and being racist. It saddens me to watch our country take this huge backward slide.
I’ve thought the same for over 20 years. MSM may mostly lean center left but they’ve never attacked conservatives the way right wing media attacks any and all liberals. I’m a lifelong Independent but was a regular and reliable GOP voter. Now I can’t even imagine voting for the best of Republicans. I think the party needs to be wiped out and a new center right party be formed by non-Trumpers.
More important than left-leaning right-leaning is striving to adhere to facts. Any publication that fails fact checks and never or rarely issues corrections or retractions is some level of propaganda.
if you haven't, check out Mediabiasfactcheck, which rates media for bias and factuality.