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It's really weird, disconcerting and discouraging that both sides accuse each other of stealing, both sides have rather ardent and vocal bases, both bases want to jail the politicians involved but only one side actually time and again gets caught cheating, lying and stealing, yet has the most loyal and fanatic base that actually want to murder those thst don't agree.
I get the average trump voter as they actually believe the nonsense they believe in, a lot can be said about gullibility, racism, etc, but as they are fed a steady diet of lies that include "the brown ones are coming to kill you" I get where they're coming from. They're mostly terrified because they're fed terror every goddamn day even though mostly nothing happens.
If the world survives this election (big if right there) can we please PLEASE do something about news providers in the US? Shut down oan, Fox News, etc. put laws in place requiring news organisations to be truthful. Yes, mistakes can be made but if a news organization sees that they publish untrue information, they must retract it and publish and equally big retraction. If they push too much to ignoring certain facts from whichever political isle, they must be punished, HARD. I don't care if it's left or right extremism, all need to be curved, news needs to be neutral facts to inform the general public.
With news changing to influencers, apply those rules to influencers as well. Yes, free speech must be a thing, but once you have an audience, you're not allowed to feed them bullshit that goes against the greater good. It's the same as yelling "fire!" in a theater. There are logical limits to free speech, this should be one of them.
This limitless lying that organisations like Fox News are allowed to do right now has caused possibly irreparable damage to so many things, it has destroyed lives and may end humanity altogether (hello, global warming "myth"!)
Cut the shit, stop the lying. We need to change how news and baseline truth and facts are given to the general population. If you lie, be it that you're a news organization, a company selling snake oil medications, a politician, an influencer, whatever it is, once you reach a group, you either are truthful or you get punished.