If taxi and bus drivers suddenly decided to disregard all traffic laws and drive any damn way they pleased, we'd ground the lot of them. If construction workers suddenly decided to forget about code and wire the building however they wanted, we'd fire them. But if journalists decide, as they have, to forget about reporting and start "making a difference" by manipulating, we give them Pulitzer prizes, or more accurately, they give them to themselves, a process quite as openly incestuous as the Academy Awards and just as phony.
The real tragedy is that the press who would otherwise chronicle has become so partisan it is now necessarily participatory, and you can't have it both ways. And the party line it has come to parrot is laid down by people who hate the country and the people who are in it. That isn't a potential danger anymore, it's reached a flashpoint and none of the people who could step back from the precipice even see it.
The issue is respect, respect on the part of the bicoastal elite who profess to be a new ruling class for the rest of us who who are angry because we are despised by them. Pray it takes place at the ballot box, because the alternatives are looking pretty stark.
I know exactly what you are saying. It’s easy to become discouraged.
The way I soothe myself is remembering that God is in control. All is well. That was one of my mother’s favorite sayings. (Thanks Mom.)
Try it. It works for me, maybe it will work for you.
I don't wonder any more...