Another Lie Destroying the Country
The more I read or watch the news or hang out on social media, the more I see how the United States is being destroyed by the lies we tell ourselves and each other and what the media tell us. I wrote about the first lie last year. Americans have convinced themselves that we are all irrevocably divided . The truth is we are more united than we think we are. If one looks only at issues, Americans are quite united. We agree on far more than we disagree on. Positions the corporate media and the government like to say are "far left" are actually mainstream. The problem is not disagreement on issues. It is tribalism and the worship of the cult of personality. Americans vote for people, not issues. The lie I want to talk about today is somewhat related to the concept of division. It's one of the drivers of this division. It is a divisive concept in itself. The lie is black and white thinking. Too many Americans believe that there are only two paradigms of economic and political ...