I'm not talking about the political parties, during election season, trying to scare voters about the other side. That's been done forever. Republicans have been trying to cut social security and kill grandma since the early 1980s.
I'm talking about the media actually trying to scare or hype up its viewers - presumably for ratings. You saw it during COVID and it continues today.
I read most of my information and take opinions with a grain of salt.
Some things, like cutting SS benefits being in Trump's annual budget proposals each year he was previously president are not opinion, there's proof to support that.
As for COVID that was a unique situation in that I don't believe anyone knew the answers at first and they adapted as more information was available.
I've seem many, after the fact, claim that it wasn't as bad based on final numbers. It is my belief that the preventative actions actually kept the number of cases down. Had we done nothing, as many claimed we should have, i believe the numbers would have been higher. Do you believe we would have been better off yo have taken none of the preventative actions that we tried?
Now if you are simply discussing hype, that's basically what news is, since most news is outside what we expect in a normal day or in a routine normal presidency.
I don't recall similar adulation for certain world leaders from previous presidents, as we saw/see from Trump. This supports my position that it's not so much the opinions, it's trumps actual words and actions.
At this point we will see how the next 4 years go. Though gotchas can seam appealing in theory, i don't want to see the country fall apart or slide into economic uncertainty, so i hope that it is hyperbole and that the next 4 years end up being as positive as possible.
It would be nice also if the republicans could understand the life of marginalized people without pretending that outliers are the norm, so that we can continue to move toward everyone being seen equally in the eye of the government and the law.
