Great point and accurate... to a point. Due to the way information is at our fingertips it is now crucial to develop new ways to be given ALL information - unlike the obvious efforts of those trying to mute the public’s access to having ALL available information and play politics like so many big tech Corps are doing. Even though there is a large subset of the population who only care about their immediate lives, and I mean nothing beyond what they believe directly affects them- you are unfortunately right. What’s also going on though is another large number of people (I’d like to think larger than the dumb downed populous subset) who is craving information and this has nothing to do with politics by the way. Any information known by a select few now that’s being stifled will eventually be known to all due to technology in five years from now will be like looking back 40 years.
The past couple of cycles have been a bit of an education campaign, and I mention that from the perspective of my own...oh...circles? Mainly for the purposes of adding relevance at a time when cable news entertainment and so many bloggers and editors are effectively peddling nothing more than a divide and conquer sort of political smut.
One of the best ways to really understand what is going on is to pay attention to legislation.
Now, that's not always easy. People are working, trying to make ends meet, which is especially trying today given how little they get from their dollar.
Of course, hardly any of the peole elected to represent the electorate read the bills themselves. Pelosi, for instance, perposely works around the process in order to lay a 3,000 page bill on them at the last minute with a little bit of candy so they just vote for it. And they shouldnlt be combining bills, each one should go on its own merit, but they won't do that because they know that they wonlt survive on their own.
We've been fortunate enough to get a few of our own people in there, of course our people read every bit of the legislation, even on short notice, employing staff to help that along. They do make us aware of what's actually in these bills and what the intentions behind them are, as well as what;s coming down the pike.
From there it's easier to actually make your own news, rather than just following along with the political smut that's being peddled in the mainstream, which really ignores all of the important stuff.
I'm kind of rambling here, sorry.
