See, this question is such a small part of the larger issue of how hypocrisy is dealt with in America today. This implication here is that the hypocrisy should be unacceptable, that somehow even the Left is completely blinded because otherwise they would act on this. Increasingly, as I've become more and more disgusted with democracy, I've come to realize the core error we have about issues like this. That average people form opinions, natural majorities form, laws are written, and so forms the system is just
WRONG. Dead wrong.
The truth is that false majorities all the time are thought to exist by the average public, and actual majorities are ignored constantly by the average public, everyday. Democracy is a lie. It isn't that consent is manufactured from time to time, it is that only manufactured consents matter. The rest die off to our false beliefs of
being the only one. Not even the only one to believe X or Y, not even to notice the question, but to being the only one who cares. Why? Because we have a mechanism in our society to announce the issues of the day and the average opinions we have of them. The media. Who else prior to the internet, and social media is increasingly censored, allowed you to find groups who cared about your cares? The media.
There is an understood form of lying in which the things said are untrue, there is another form where only certain the facts are allowed to come out precisely so wrong opinions are formed without those who know the truth being allowed to voice the truth, but there is still yet another form of lying. You just talk about other things, you don't even 'fact check' that it even is true, but you just don't talk about it. No body talks about the nature of corporate taxation or government subsidizing, they just talk a lot about other things. Some times we talk about uncomfortable truths around elections, and then stop.
Remember when BLM was Antisemitic? Did that come up again when BLM emerged again? No? huh, and why am I calling it BLM? It was only called that while White Folks were protesting the
Bureau of
Land
Management,
not today!
Google
"now is not the time to talk about"and you can see dates and subjects in the past where the Media decides something isn't going to become a question of the day. Like a court leaving you in jail another day until they feel like hearing your case. Modern Democratic Justice. This is the closest thing to Hard Power needed today to keep the American in line, and media does it for free provided you are their political party. Hence the folly of handing Trump the term "fake news" because while what I'm describing isn't fake news, it sits close to the heart of anyone who thinks differently than the journalist class. Oops.
In politics and law, mediatisation is the loss of persons being subject not to local lords but only to a higher authority directly, such as the Holy Roman Emperor. Between 1803 and 1806, the final years of the Holy Roman Empire, the vast majority of the states of the Holy Roman Empire were mediatised. These states lost their imperial immediacy (Reichsunmittelbarkeit) and became part of other states. In communication studies or media studies since 1964, mediatization became a theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse (conversation) of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place. Note the 'z' which changed the word but kept the meaning. We are kept lower than those who host our conversations, its not wrong but it is wrong not to notice the power of it.
Corporations aren't going to pay their share, just like the aristocrats of the Ancien Regime. When it came to discussing the issue in front of the French King, you better bet that the Nobles & the Clergy (family members of each other) got 2/3rds of the vote and only the remaining third vetoing the Kingdom of France into financial ruin and downfall brought the whole rotten structure down. Luckily wealthy kids today were educated on this, were you? That's why the American citizens regardless of the political party seem to be okay with Big businesses getting bailouts and such when they don't need it. Some people may kick up a fuss but at the end of the day the corporations get what they want and the US citizen gets fucked over and shoulders more debt that they can never pay off no matter how hard they try because the average person is kept from organizing against present conditions mostly by their average fellow citizen. That fellow citizen doesn't hear about the issue and has been brought up to know their source for today's news. And you ain't ever going be it. Democracy.
