Len5 wrote:
The guy we don't like won the election, so maybe we should change our democratic system.
pixel wrote:wow, this thread is a salt mine.
I'm finding this thread both hilarious and sad at the same time. Because it seems even now, most still haven't learnt the lesson. It's sad NOT because of what's happening NOW, but it's sad because it will be hard for thing to change in the future. Until when people know how to spit out their own righteous poison, they will have no chance. Know your enemy and you have nothing to fear in a 1000 battle right? So what can you do when you can not even acknowledge your own adversary.
I found this recently post article on bbc which I think sum up what I have always been saying in the last few months very well:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37924687
A few notable quotes from it:
We pride ourselves on being realists, but in fact we have a fatal weakness for construing the world as crude morality plays.
The people who run newsrooms agonise over diversity. They will go to any length to increase racial, gender, and sexual diversity, but care nothing about viewpoint diversity ... To the contrary, they believed that religious conservatives, among other undesirable demographic categories, were the problem.
Will this catastrophic failure of the media cause soul-searching and, dare I say it, repentance? Forget it. To do so would require the press to face up to its worst prejudices, none more deeply held than the belief that its members are on the Right Side of History.
I recommend everyone read it, then look at the mirror and ask if you're seeing your own reflection in there. Blame everyone else if you want, but be it Brexit, the current situation in Germany and France or the result of the US election, they are at least half the reason they lose themselves.
