Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
There isn’t really a “center”, either someone is able to parse new understanding about the world and society and then integrate that understanding into their political goals (adjusting as ideas fail or succeed) or they cling to outdated beliefs.
This is especially true of the media, telling “some lies” and misrepresenting “some facts” doesn’t make an outlet centrist, it just makes them anti-truth and anti-reality.
The notion that politics is a spectrum is one of the most successful political framing jobs conservatives ever pulled on people.
There isn’t really a “center”, either someone is able to parse new understanding about the world and society and then integrate that understanding into their political goals (adjusting as ideas fail or succeed) or they cling to outdated beliefs.
This is especially true of the media, telling “some lies” and misrepresenting “some facts” doesn’t make an outlet centrist, it just makes them anti-truth and anti-reality.
The notion that politics is a spectrum is one of the most successful political framing jobs conservatives ever pulled on people.