Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
I think there's something to that. Our political discourse, especially on the national level, has drifted away from how best to oversee and provide security to a collection of states to a more culturally based enforcement bureau designed to reward members of whichever party is currently in power and punish members of the opposition.

I blame most of this on media, all media be it newspapers, tv news, social media, whatever, who all exist not to provide a public service but rather to inflame the emotions of its consumers in order to build a brand loyalty and keep those consumers coming back for more. You couple that with a political environment where power can only be held by appealing to those emotions by ensuring that the other side is seen as an enemy and you end up with threads like this.

You also end up with official governmental activities such as the Jan 6 Committee whose goal is not to root out and punish offenders but to establish a narrative that the other side is bad. You can see that in the fact that all hearings are staged for the media, even to the point that they hired a TV producer to oversee the events and witnesses are chosen based upon their ability to provide the proper narrative. It's especially obvious today where the regularly scheduled episode was canceled, not because they had other things to do, but because a hurricane has struck Florida and usurped their TV time. If they can't promote their 'other side is bad' narrative to millions of people on any given day, that day is not worth doing.
You twist the facts to meet your agenda OR because you don’t want to face reality. My guess is the later. And, yes they are showing the perpetrators are bad… which is an understatement. How you can infer otherwise is unconscionable…. they tried to overthrow the government and wanted to hang the VP!!!