ht;@radx
i have recently found myself having to defend my position for listening to chris hedges.a pulitzer prize winning,former war correspondent for twenty years and author of numerous illuminating books criticizing power,institutionalized inequality,the failure of the liberal class and the fascism of the christian right.

not one person actually addressed what hedges was saying.so i do not know if they agreed,or disagreed with what hedges was laying down.i was being forced to defend my reasoning to listen to hedges who just happened to be on RT:russia today.

that somehow,because RT is a propaganda arm for russian politics that hedges MUST be a russian propagandist,or at least legitimizing RT by his mere presence,and therefore his analysis should be disregarded on that point alone.

i found this troubling,and reached out to a fellow sifter to ask if maybe i was missing something.was MY bias clouding my judgement? i am,after all,human and just as prone to confirmation bias as the next person.

because i was really having trouble digesting the whole "throw the baby out with the bath water" mentality,and this coming from people i respected and hence my self-reflection.

this fellow sifter reminded me (thanks @radx) that some people simply cannot allow information that contradicts their internal narrative.

because uncomfortable truths can be uncomfortable.

so here on the sift ridiculing FOX is childs play,because it does not conflict with that internal narrative,in fact it solidifies that narrative,but what if we began to really examine our own biases,and internal narratives?

and what if a media personality we all adore,reveals her own biases?
to the point of absurdity?
what if the disease of partisan politics become so odious that it begins to break down the foundations of our own prejudices?
what if democrats are forced to finally admit that they promoted a shit candidate?
that there is NO evidence of russian hacking to promote trump?
what if democrats were finally forced to admit that their party is JUST as broken,dysfunctional and corrupt as the republicans?

i hold many liberal and progressive ideas,i am an anarchist for fuck sakes...cannot get more "lefty" than me.

but i am allergic to partisan bullshit.

and the apopalectic reaction to trump by the left and the consequent belief in russian hacking for the promotion of trump as president,based on the most facile and tacit of information...reveals a stunning and dangerous defiance to facts and truth.

all to hold onto a bullshit narrative that the democrats did not fail the american people on an epic scale.because to do that means to take responsibility.

lets just blame russia and it's merry band of "useful idiots",based on un-sourced and anonymous players from the deep state.

yeah..lets do that.

what could go wrong right?