A Note: USA, Our Terrible Divide.

As I see it, the underpinning of our political discord is neither Trump nor the Democratic party. Rather, it is the mainstream media (controlled by a mere handful of billionaire owners (and like-minded board members) who have their own undeclared political agenda). And, unfortunately for our country as a whole, those motives have nothing to do with journalism.

Cheered and supported by The Deep State, the mainstream media, enraptured by their own self-righteous presumptions, have become the daily juice feeding this terrible emotional divide between friends and within families.

The working blind-spot for most of us can be fixation and assumption of facts in hand. If I am constantly reading and listening to sources A, B, and C while you have been reading and listening to sources D, E, and F with all six of those SOURCES implying that their information is sacrosanct yet the data provided by A-B-C is the polar opposite of D-E-F then we have paralysis, even war.

Woven into this mess is the ongoing use of intentional and sophisticated lies-of-omission which, in effect, is the peripheral poke-in-the-eye. It becomes harder to see clearly … for any of us, for all of us.

There are, of course, exceptions within the morass: real journalism, determined digging for the greater truths and awareness, courageous front-line calls for a reunion.

We will rise as a country, stronger for the experience … more determined than ever to listen well, to see our illusions of separation.