Last week 2 different talk shows asked the same question “are you
concerned about the accusation that Facebook edits out a lot of the so called
trending conservative newsfeeds”? The
ladies on The View said they didn’t get their news information from Facebook
and the McLaughlin Group said first that Facebook was a social media and most
people wanted to know what their friends were doing at that moment. While my first reaction aligned with both
comments I think the fact is that most people actually do get their information
from Facebook rather than deliberately reading a newspaper or watching a news
program or other conventional methods. I
could be wronging the majority of people but given that Donald Trump is now the
presumptive Republican candidate I have my doubts.
Here we go, another political commentary.
When people of any stripe talk about “entitlements” I want to take that
word and shove it down the speaker’s throat.
Then I’d like to go into a rant while taking a page out of Justin Trudeau’s
speech that starts with “because this is the 21st century”. Speaking as a humanitarian rather than a
socialist some things ought to be a given in 21st Century
Society. Access to affordable housing
and utilities would be at the top of the list followed by affordable health
care and education. Therefore utility
companies and health and education facilities should be not-for-profit,
government owned entities. The reader is
thinking “but that is communism or at least socialism” and I say no, this is
practicalism.
Does it make sense that people cannot turn on their lights or heat
their homes while one person becomes a billionaire because she owns the utility
company? Let’s look a little deeper and
ask how much of the infrastructure supporting the utility company has been paid
for by the taxpayer, out of tax dollars, not out of the utility fees that they
have been paying. Looking a little
further, how much of the power is sent south of the border and bargain basement
prices. After that it is no wonder that
we begin to close our eyes, shudder and then get very, very upset as we turn on
Facebook in an effort to ignore the problems of the world?
