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(32,139 posts)I once spent nearly an entire afternoon online trying to find political cartoons that address the REAL problem we face...the fact that both parties are massively corporate-purchased by the one percent and that corporatists in both parties are colluding to implement essentially the same direction in policy at the expense of the 99 percent.
That message is simply not out there in the mainstream media. We are continually fed a false narrative of Red versus Blue and encouraged to take one side or another regardless of the policies being implemented. Even editorial pages are designed to facilitate the division...(Corporate) Left-leaning articles are presented on one page, and Right-leaning articles on another, and you're expected to read only your side. Our cable news does the same thing.
Our entire media is designed, first, to distract from the corporate agenda both parties are actually inflicting on us, and, second, to cover over the economic complicity of the two corporate parties and foment division among us by continually hyping wedge issue differences that the one percent could not care less about. They want us to choose a team and rally around that team even while our side is continuing to ratchet up the corporate agenda. They want us to hate each other so much that we will never be able to conceive of uniting to stop what they are doing to ALL of us.