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Originally Posted by Damien
It wasn't the left who caused a guy to walk into a pizza place with a gun because of conspiracies he saw. The internet is full of nasty, angry people irrespective of the political divide they are on.
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I didn't say it was "the left". I said it was the media. Granted, a lot of the media leans politically to the left but what we are seeing is the result of a media (social as well as broadcast) driven political frenzy.
We've got a lot of people today who are drawn to media like moths to a flame. The can't get enough of the intrigue and drama that's being spread. That happens on both sides. Media figured out a long time ago that appeals to emotion draw viewers and their advertisers tend to like viewer numbers. Therefore we have "news" media that spends less time telling the story and more time telling stories about the story.
The problem is that some people can't handle the drama. They get overwhelmed and do horrible things. Sometimes they shoot up a pizza parlor and sometimes they shoot up a congressional baseball practice. The jurors in this case are at risk from fanatics from both political ideologies.