This is something I probably should have responded to earlier, and perhaps if I do so now, you'll have a better idea of where I'm coming from, Don...

Whether you like it or not, you and I are on the same side!

I'm not on any side. For me 'sides' are an irrelevance and a distraction. Because from my perspective, this taking sides thing is what's killing our country. People who have control of the media (all of the mainstream media), are pitting us against each other. They're using the time honored method of divide and conquer, manipulating us into taking one side or the other and battling it out. This is not only a waste of our time, energy, and resources, it also allows the people who are using this method against us to do whatever they want, with our help!

We need to stop doing that. We need to stop seeing the other person (the one who watches FOX news, for instance) as being fundamentally different from ourselves. They have the same needs, wants, and desires. They just have been manipulated (as everyone who sees it in terms of 'sides' has) into thinking it's the FOX network that has their best interests at heart. And the people who trust the alphabet networks think it's those outlets that have their beset interests at heart. And the people who trust the public news outlets think the same about them.

But we are all being conditioned (relentlessly) to believe that the other guy, the one who gets their news from a source we don't like, that guy represents all that is wrong with our country.

Well he or she doesn't. What's wrong with this country is that we've let them manipulate us into seeing each other in that way, and we devote our energies to fighting each other about it instead of all getting together and making the people who are manipulating us in this way stop what they're doing.

Can you imagine what this country would be like if we all got together and held these people accountable for what they've been doing? Personally, I think it would be a much better place.