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lees1975

(6,184 posts)
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 06:14 PM Dec 2021

Money is the motive that drives the political hatred that we see

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/12/money-is-motive-that-drives-hatred-we.html

[Rush]Limbaugh, and the train of wannabee right wing media personalities that have followed along, made a personal fortune off peddling hatred. It was to their personal benefit, not to the country's benefit, to keep people stirred up, behaving and specifically voting in a way that perpetuates this particular worldview. As long as they have a following, and are listening to the broadcasts, advertisers are putting up money to keep it on the air. And they have a paycheck and all the perks that go with it.

How patriotic is that? Continuing to foster divisiveness that has people at each other's throats, openly threatening Civil War, believing that fellow Americans are an enemy, instead of just exercising their rights as a citizen to voice a different view, which is the essence of American culture. It is the ethnic and racial diversity of this country, the fact that people have brought their culture with them and in the United States, have the liberty to live as they choose, speak whatever language they choose and express themselves as they choose, that brings about true unity.

It is not in the best interests of the United States to keep the bigotry, prejudice and hatred going and growing. it seems to be in the best interests of most of the commentators and personalities of the extreme right wing media. And while you hear debate with facts and opinions from those in the media who are considered favorable to the left, they don't call their opponents enemies and they don't suggest that they shouldn't have the right to a voice.
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Money is the motive that drives the political hatred that we see (Original Post) lees1975 Dec 2021 OP
Divide & Rule, not unity in order to maintain power. samo. appalachiablue Dec 2021 #1
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