A reader is discouraged at the blame game in Washington in connection with the possible government shutdown:
The GOP got its message out first and more loudly, and its adherents are more likely to believe that message. So it doesn’t matter that the truth is the GOP is screwing the children worse than the Democrats; the GOP has again won the propaganda war in the minds of the largely illiterate populace of this country.
Later:
Yup, and MPR reported this morning that if the government shuts down, it will be the minority Dems who caused it. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
So the reader appears, inadvertently, to be in the same camp as MPR.
What’s to be done? Direct outcry, I think. Has the reader called up MPR and complained vociferously? Perhaps made it onto one of the several talk-shows to strongly suggest that the MPR reporters should get both sides of the story? Share posts such as mine on Facebook?
Sometimes the truth must be shouted from the rooftops.
