We all know America is divided, more so than in most people’s lifetime. Left and right are speaking two different languages. What’s underneath is even more profound, more divided and more splintered, even within the two camps we acknowledge as left and right. The left has divisions ranging from antifa militants all the way to clean scrubbed corn-fed locals that were simply raised as Democrats but have always let the train take them where the train goes, now much further left. The ‘right’ has the same dynamics, the same extremes, but a major difference being that the ‘establishment’ cars on their train think they’re controlling the ride. Little do they know, their train cars are now unlinked from the rest.
Media is the stage upon which most of us experience our camp’s ideological expression. This used to be a fairly simple equation. CNN or MSNBC for the liberals, Fox for the conservatives (and of course a whole constellation of similar outlets for both sides), but the point is, media was mostly a dichotomy for two cohesive camps that abutted one another – where one left off, the other began. In 2020, this is no longer the case. Not only are there more than two tracks, but the space between each camp, each train, each ideological party has no connecting point. This is now reflected in our media choices. The great divide in media coverage has now become so farcically obvious to the point that we now identified by our news ecosystem. Moving forward, that identity will become every bit or maybe even more distinct than one’s political party.
This is not just an idle social observation. We now have a literal Tower of Babel situation in our political and social life. Dust off your bible for a moment or just google it. The ‘Tower’ was the American idea, one nation. The division for which Babel became a common metaphor was when all of the peoples where given different languages, suddenly unable to communicate with one another, resulting in terminal strife that caused the Tower construction to cease and the peoples to commence animus against each other. This is where we are now; the divide is irreconcilable and we’re destined, not to resolve our differences, but to exacerbate them.
The divide is asymmetrical and there is not equal complicity. No party is pure, particularly given the institutional whoring that comprised DC politics, but for war like rhetoric, blame rests squarely on the Democrat factions now in power in Washington and their Big Media sponsors. Their target? Anyone defending Trump or especially his ideas which will continue to exist as revived conservatism going forward, even if Trump never shows his face again after January 20. And don’t forget that third train, displaced Establishment – Never Trumpers, consisting mostly of career politicians and cowards. They imagine themselves the reasonable compromise between two extremes; little do they seem to know; they’re hated by the progressive left and are now viewed as Benedict Arnold traitors by the right. That’s no basis for ever gaining relevance again.
So to deep progressive haters, keep bringing on your threats of concentration camps, ‘reeducation’, revenge, ruin, doxing, ‘redistribution’. Bring your fear hate rhetoric…. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Be ready to meet the America you thought no longer existed; a line is drawn in the sand.