Oh lord, with regard to mainstream media...
I put the news on every morning for weather and traffic. Of course in between, I get what passes for "news." You know what they are doing now? Regurgitating viral nonsense from the internet and calling it news. Things I saw on Facebook today, will be on the news tomorrow.
Remember the Starbucks red cup story? PEOPLE ARE OUTRAGED. What people...where? I asked. And it was on the news. And it turned out, that in fact no people were actually in any way outraged, it was BS made up by some evangelical con man who was trying to get traffic to his web page, videos, and fundraising efforts.
And yet. The news...reported it...as though it were news.
But you see, the part of me that hopes this whole Trump thing is just a bad dream, is encouraged by this. Like maybe he just bought the illusion of support, but none of it is actually real...
Yes. You bet your buns I am weary.
But ya see, I think that the "American Dream" is what's made it hard for the American people to stand up and demand changes. I read somewhere that America's poor people are just "temporarily embarrassed millionaires." Think about that. We all think we can work for and eventually get what we want here. We're raised to believe in that, I think. So many of us have too much to lose, our homes, cars, and stuff that we have worked so hard for, we don't want to risk that by standing up for our principles, let alone our lives. Even those of us who are living a lower standard of living than what we'd like, basically think we are on a road making progress toward that goal. We don't want to lose what we have worked to gain. The people you see protesting and rioting over the injustices and wrongs of the world, they either don't feel they've got much to lose, or they are some very, seriously, principled individuals.
Personally, I wish we could have got John McAfee into the White House. He is paranoid as hell and he hates the government. I think he represents me pretty well. Also...I think he's cute. I could watch him do speeches for a few years. Alas. He was not backed by the right kind of money and *poof!* Gone.