"Left wing Right wing. I want something that's easy to say" We original Clash fans laughed when "Cut the Crap" came out in 1984 and Joe Strummer tried to lay that one on us. For a band known for its political leanings, it was all too simplistic. Flash forward 34 years and the extreme right wing propaganda machine calls itself "the news" and people mindlessly consume this at the gym along with other "entertainment". Brought to you by the people who created the "War on Christmas". It's actually a war on intelligence and critical thinking.
Meanwhile, if you repeat extreme views like the Fox's at Fox News have done all these years, they are accepted as mainstream and people who stopped exercising their critical thinking skills after the school bell rang can't discern The Onion from CNN because they're told to fear this type of "elitist humor". The skill to evaluate facts isn't elitist intellectualism. It's a basic skill that everyone has and needs to keep. Mass shootings and abortions are not the same things. Jesus didn't have a political party, especially not one that worships money and power and hates the poor. You know this in your mind and heart. The battle is real. We have to think our way thru this clash because we can't compete with the brute force of the propaganda that says consume now pay later.