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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Bias requires a choice. It may become unintentional, subconscious even, at some point. But one must decide to acquire it initially.

When you choose to do something, you’ve acted with intent. You may be misguided. But you’ve decided to throw your hat in with one “side” or in allegiance with others aligned against an enemy.

Trump is as worthy an enemy as has ever existed. But if one decides to join a cultural movement against him, he’s biased.

I don’t like or hate Trump. I think he’s personally a joke. I think many of his policies are bad. But some, like the recent justice reform bill he got behind, are good. I also don’t know that my Econ 101/Free-trade-is-always-good doctrinaire distaste for tariffs on China is entirely right. He may be stumbling into a necessary check on a pernicious power. I could be right and Trump wrong on that issue. Again, it’s all subjective.

The media cannot deal with the world issue by issue. It cannot take the accurate perspective that it’s all subjective. It must trade in bias to sell advertising space because its viewers are tribal. They want (a lot of people even here want) to be able to pick a side and “believe.” That’s a method of interacting that holds us back. I don’t know how to get around it in our political system, but the coming gridlock, which will lead hopefully to issue by issues compromise as much as is possible, is a good start.

I “believe” I want Reagan and O’Neill cutting deals once again. I “believe” we need to bury the zero sum game politics of Gingrich.

I hope that you wrote this when drinking heavily. If not, I'd recommend you start drinking now, so at least you'll have that excuse for the response.