I’ve spent the last couple of months watching streams of the protests, listening to their speeches, watching them trash cities, shoot each other and smash peoples cars up for daring to drive on an interstate.
I don't think that's the case. She would be viewed as being to the left on the UK. That didn't work too well for Labour in the last election.
Boro Mart , if someone doesn't agree with your view are they automatically "brainwashed"? I voted for Bernie in the last.primary but I didn't think he would make a good president, it was more to temper Clinton.
I've seen plenty of the protests, hardly any of them, a >1% minority are violent, which is reflective of greater society. If you think that apart from the initial few days these are violent protests, if you don't think it's federal provocation, then yes, you are reading right wing propoganda
I'm not. I predicted that there would be major civil unrest when the loon got in 4 years ago, the only unknown was a pandemic
Why isn't it, because right wing media owning billionaires have scared people from it. To the point where having any socialist policies is now seen as theft. That isn't balanced, it isn't honest, it isn't fair on greater society. The real extremism we face is free market neo-liberal nonsense. That governments should be torn down and we should all put on our big boy pants and look after ourselves. But that is far more extremist than a few socialist policies. I don't believe in the extremism of communism, and I don't believe in mass socialism. BUT I also recognise that free market economics fails the masses and is just as extreme an ideology with many losers.
No, people are brainwashed, the mainstream media has been owned by just a handful of billionaires who use it to push ideologies that keep their taxes low. It often works which is why the Tory party here and the GOP in the US are so successful. This shouldn't be seen as some kind of radical statement by me. I mean we've all seen "It was the Sun that won it", and Murdoch called "the kingmaker" etc. We've all seen working class tory voters, who read the Sun, this isn't an accident.
and to in a slightly more muted way here, lets be honest the repeated character assassinations of Labour leaders for 40 years because they will financially ruin the country....followed by 10 years of the tories financially ruining the country, is a repeating pattern
I appreciate a reasoned debate , thanks for taking the time to answer in detail.
Yes and they use it to push leftist democratic agendas, the MSM in America is almost entirely owned by democrat supporters, not to mention social media. Twitter, google, Facebook all censoring search results/actual trending topics in favour of pushing agendas.
What Murdoch is a democrat? and as others have said Dems are not left, they are soft right. Come on catch up. If the media were left wing owned they wouldn't support either main US political party. Facebook has been absent from censoring and only recently have twitter started to actually apply its censoring to any useful degree. But what they have applied it to needed censoring, for being untruthful and dangerous.
The problem with your argument, Boromart, is that there are 2 left-wing dailies in the UK: Daily Mirror and Guardian, so the mainstream media is clearly not entirely owned by right-wing billionaires. The problem for the Mirror and the Guardian is that not many people buy them, which indicates that catering to left-wing views is not attractive to the majority of newspaper readers.
entirely might not be fair, largely IS fair. Newspapers no longer exist to cater to newsreaders, they cater to the needs of the owners and their political ideologies. The Guardian is one that does do a lot of investigative journalism, Cadwalladr is a great example of that, an award winning journalist respected in her industry. However 95% of the British public are too lazy or uninterested in truth, in rooting out corruption to read her stuff. The general public, although liking individual left wing policies, such as protecting the NHS (not as a slogan, but actually protecting it), or privatising the trains, are enticed by stories of scandal and fear to 'news'papers such as The Sun. It's much easier to stoke fear than any other emotion.
