I’ve been following along with the outrage surrounding the DC takeover. The local news outlets have been trying to highlight “both sides” of the situation. I checked the local TV sources while I was listening to WTOP; are they searching for things to prove Orange Man Bad?
I’m seeing three basic perspectives on this:
- Everything he does is awful, and just how awful it is can’t be understated. We’re all going to die! (This is understandable in a city where Officer Harris got well over 90% of the vote.)
- There was a better way to do it, and it’s bad because OrangeManBad is doing it, and this other way should have been tried first
- I may not like it, but it might work.
This story kind of hits those points. I don’t know if it’s just audience service, but they mention the Women’s March from January 2017 without any comment offensive backers. Okay, they’re bad, but nowhere nearly as bad as Trump.
I’m listening to/watching the news, and watching the local news stations, the coverage seems to be overwhelmingly-focused on position #1.
Along with the tack I’ve taken with the title of my Substack, “I’m Okay With This,” I’ve been thinking about Isaiah 41 quite a bit lately; be not afraid.
Maybe that’s influenced by too much attention to Human Progress. I’ll be the first to admit that many of the actions fall into the do-something-even-if-it’s-wrong category. The people in the second group I identified seem to fall into this camp. He’s never going to satisfy the people in Group One.
But what’s been happening, especially since the “Summer of Love,” hasn’t been working.
Logically, I understand that absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, but I have noticed a paucity of the usual crime stories since the takeover; maybe this will work?