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Originally Posted by damaclese
so Richard you are saying that you don't think theres any social and or political disparity that has led to a lack of cohesion here in the US?
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The business of commercial TV and Radio is to increase the stress level of the audience so that the audience finds relief in advertisements [Chapter 1, Radio & TV Management course 300]. This fact plays very well into the hands of politicians who are more interested in power than governance, and has led directly to the divide-and-conquer campaign strategies of the last 3 decades. We now have 2 generations that thrive on "politics as sports" and arguing as a past-time. If you want to get away from all this, then turn off your TV/Radio news and talk shows and try sources that have little or no vested interest in the politics or the stress level of the news. "The Economist" is one such source.