Sol's Culture Wars

The top news editor job at CNN must be done with Zoom from home. It's so easy. After all, there are only a select few areas of stories to assemble for a day's offering. The desired article topic categories are: Trump, fear over the weather, Trump, racial issues past and present, Trump, fear over the environment, Trump, fear over right-wing media and Christian patriots, Trump, fear over new global viruses, Trump, any Republican scandals, Trump, and all the very best Amazon bargains. The top CNN editor just picks from the daily menu, phones in the choices, done. The rest is automatic, programmatic, and dogmatic. Format is always the same, and it's meant to jar both our attention and emotions. Big, bold verbs, and perilous words coupling negatives when possible. The team back at the office knows how it's all supposed to look. And, yes, the other legacy networks, they have the same easy gig, meant to influence towards their respective but hardly respectable narratives. ...

Feeling thankful today that our great but troubled Republic has built into its genius design a strength of checks and balances, ensuring democracy will endure thru any negative process. It is truly a miraculous structure of personal autonomy, plus the protections of rights for all Americans.  It is still possible to have coordinated, partisan legal cases that defy precedent, and are constitutionally wrong at their core. All it takes is openly biased judges and DAs, their own campaigns financed thru donations from very influential special interests.  However, it's not possible to have a partisan general election for U.S. president. That involves the Electorial College, all fifty states, not just some local fiefdom of political power. Nov 5, the voters determine what is really true, and most relevant.