Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Don't talk about it.

Hoping to be broadly informed by all sides of the discussion on inequality, I ran across this article by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group.

Their advice, redirect the conversation and talk about something else.

According to their article, Americans don't care about income inequality and inadequate wages.  They did an online survey of less than a thousand folks to generate numbers they could use while ignoring the obvious problem that folks most affected by the gap don't do online surveys.

Both ends of the political spectrum have their biased representatives, of course, all competing for our loyalty and attention.

An interesting question, why would an entire media source be obviously biased, and why would their journalism be other than objective?  Who made the decision about how to interpret the available facts?  One perhaps relevant analysis:  The Propaganda Model and Sociology: Understanding the Media and Society

It's always difficult to deal with difficult issues and difficult people at the same time.  An open discussion with broad inquiry is perhaps needed if we're going to understand cause and impact on folks as well as options for beneficial change.

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