Whether a person is considered left or right, Democrat or Republican, what the majority of both sides suffer from is ignorance. They jump on the band wagon of the day, adamantly defending one side or the other, driven by their favorite political or media source. They have no in-depth knowledge of the issues at hand.
One of the main reasons for this is dependence upon the tightly controlled media, which is usually nothing more than divisive propaganda, intentionally concealing, twisting, selectively editing, taking things out of context and often lying. The vast majority of people can not escape this, as their attention on issues is either limited to few minutes of mainstream media a day, or long hours of simple, repetitive and shallow political punditry.
As a gross generalization, this can be applied to any issue of the day, month or year.
Social media has only made this phenomenon worse. Super simplified and short messages, equivalent to gossip. There is information on the internet, but unfortunately the misinformation drowns out the truth. The education system is now nothing but a propaganda and conditioning factory. True impartial education, facts and knowledge is not the goal, it is anathema.
Is there a solution?
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