After the latest election, I got seriously disillusioned by how the media had covered political issues. I constantly had a very different reading on what was actually was said by the politicians and I couldn't understand why people were so surprised that Trump would win I felt like I was living on another planet.
It seemed to me that he was the only person besides Sanders and a few others who addressed the issues that people cared about and being a socially liberal and fiscally conservative who actually liked Obama and Clinton a lot, it really surprised me how little I agreed with the Hillary campaign and the issues she ran on.
I realized that if I felt so different from I would normally have considered my political position maybe a lot of other things I took for granted claimed by the normal media I followed, maybe I wasn't being feed the whole story.
So I stopped relying on the news both online, tv and newspapers on anything other than the most basic description of the events and instead started digging into the "other side" i.e. the alt-right and conservative issues in general.
I had heard about Milo, Ben Shapiro, Breitbart and other people was was described as right-wing and never had really looked into what they were saying.
So I started digging in started to listen to what they actually had to say and to by big surprise I realized that I was actually agreeing with a lot of the things they said and that they certaintly weren't the evil racist right wing people they were being portrayed as. In fact they were actually often hated by the real right-wing. One of the most informative things was to listen to Dave Rubins Show which invites a lot of different people in and actually hear them out and make their cases.
I have never been much of a political ideologist and always found that I agreed/disagreed with a lot of different people with a lot of different political backgrounds and never really could find my political shelf now I realize that it's because I never really questioned just how big the bias of most newspapers, tv-news and online media really is.
My advice is drop the online news, the paper news and the TV news, start actually learning about the issues that you care about from the people who have thought about it most which I can assure you isn't the modern journalists.
It seemed to me that he was the only person besides Sanders and a few others who addressed the issues that people cared about and being a socially liberal and fiscally conservative who actually liked Obama and Clinton a lot, it really surprised me how little I agreed with the Hillary campaign and the issues she ran on.
I realized that if I felt so different from I would normally have considered my political position maybe a lot of other things I took for granted claimed by the normal media I followed, maybe I wasn't being feed the whole story.
So I stopped relying on the news both online, tv and newspapers on anything other than the most basic description of the events and instead started digging into the "other side" i.e. the alt-right and conservative issues in general.
I had heard about Milo, Ben Shapiro, Breitbart and other people was was described as right-wing and never had really looked into what they were saying.
So I started digging in started to listen to what they actually had to say and to by big surprise I realized that I was actually agreeing with a lot of the things they said and that they certaintly weren't the evil racist right wing people they were being portrayed as. In fact they were actually often hated by the real right-wing. One of the most informative things was to listen to Dave Rubins Show which invites a lot of different people in and actually hear them out and make their cases.
I have never been much of a political ideologist and always found that I agreed/disagreed with a lot of different people with a lot of different political backgrounds and never really could find my political shelf now I realize that it's because I never really questioned just how big the bias of most newspapers, tv-news and online media really is.
My advice is drop the online news, the paper news and the TV news, start actually learning about the issues that you care about from the people who have thought about it most which I can assure you isn't the modern journalists.