Sure. Any chance to get his audience to hear an alternative version. The number of conservatives with whom I chat in real life who have just never heard of various things kind of blows me away. My good buddy was on the “yeah but the Left is more violent” train, we talked about it, I showed him things he hadn’t seen and vice versa. We both learned, grew and revised our opinions.
No, I’m just confident in the power of reality and facts. It’s why I admire Pete Buttigieg for going on and making the Liberal case on Fox news. We’re not converting anyone who disagrees with us here.
You know we just elected a 34-time fraud convict and adjudicated rapist to the Presidency here, right? Reality and facts weren’t even in the news for the last two years.
You know we just elected a 34-time fraud convict and adjudicated rapist to the Presidency here, right?
Exactly the point. When things are so bad half the country is willing to say “yeah, but we trust him more than the fucking Left” something is seriously wrong.
If we don’t work to figure out how to win folks over, things are going to get much much worse.
My life will be fine kind of regardless but I worry for others.
The short answer is media. Or as the kids like to say, “propaganda”.
Ehhhh, I think blaming a problem happening simultaneously in almost every democracy on “the media” feels a bit like putting our heads in the sand and avoiding the issues. But to each their own.
There’s a ton of scholarship to back it up and it will affect your efforts one way or another but you can also ignore it and hope it doesn’t have as much sway as “they” say.
Unless you mean something like social media, then I’d probably agree. But any research blaming traditional media would have to answer three large issues that seem to stand in direct contradiction:
Germany has a wildly different media ecosystem than America, which has a wildly different media landscape than the UK, which has a wildly different media ecosystem than Italy, which has a wildly different media landscape than Austria, which has a very different one than France, which is very different from Poland etc. But the same phenomenon is happening across the board.
Traditional media is no longer where most people get their news. So either it’s really radicalizing a smaller group or?
Traditional media consumption among age groups seems to indicate quite the opposite happening, ie, in America at least (I can’t recall the age related shifts across Europe) younger voters are, relative to historical norms, lurching Right, whereas older voters are moving a bit to the Left. Yet, the younger groups are much less likely to get their news from traditional media than older voters, so if media were the culprit, you’d expect the shift to have happened the other way.
Sure. Any chance to get his audience to hear an alternative version. The number of conservatives with whom I chat in real life who have just never heard of various things kind of blows me away. My good buddy was on the “yeah but the Left is more violent” train, we talked about it, I showed him things he hadn’t seen and vice versa. We both learned, grew and revised our opinions.
Same thing could happen for Rush’s audience.
You’re expecting good faith then. Like talking with a good buddy.
No, I’m just confident in the power of reality and facts. It’s why I admire Pete Buttigieg for going on and making the Liberal case on Fox news. We’re not converting anyone who disagrees with us here.
You know we just elected a 34-time fraud convict and adjudicated rapist to the Presidency here, right? Reality and facts weren’t even in the news for the last two years.
But hey - good luck!
Exactly the point. When things are so bad half the country is willing to say “yeah, but we trust him more than the fucking Left” something is seriously wrong.
If we don’t work to figure out how to win folks over, things are going to get much much worse.
My life will be fine kind of regardless but I worry for others.
The short answer is media. Or as the kids like to say, “propaganda”.
Neither of which are arguable. But I appreciate you wanting to talk with people one-to-one. Good luck there.
Ehhhh, I think blaming a problem happening simultaneously in almost every democracy on “the media” feels a bit like putting our heads in the sand and avoiding the issues. But to each their own.
There’s a ton of scholarship to back it up and it will affect your efforts one way or another but you can also ignore it and hope it doesn’t have as much sway as “they” say.
You are free to share some of that scholarship.
Unless you mean something like social media, then I’d probably agree. But any research blaming traditional media would have to answer three large issues that seem to stand in direct contradiction:
Germany has a wildly different media ecosystem than America, which has a wildly different media landscape than the UK, which has a wildly different media ecosystem than Italy, which has a wildly different media landscape than Austria, which has a very different one than France, which is very different from Poland etc. But the same phenomenon is happening across the board.
Traditional media is no longer where most people get their news. So either it’s really radicalizing a smaller group or?
Traditional media consumption among age groups seems to indicate quite the opposite happening, ie, in America at least (I can’t recall the age related shifts across Europe) younger voters are, relative to historical norms, lurching Right, whereas older voters are moving a bit to the Left. Yet, the younger groups are much less likely to get their news from traditional media than older voters, so if media were the culprit, you’d expect the shift to have happened the other way.