The Middle American
Far left. Far right. Conservative. Liberal. Republican. Democrat. Can't fully relate? Me either. But nearly all public discourse and media is centered upon the views share by one of the two political parties - and often those shouting the loudest from the extremes of both sides. This isn't just a political podcast. It's a podcast on life and society, with politics mixed in. But from a viewpoint we do not hear enough from - the middle.
The Middle American
6 Topics for '26: Blurred Reality
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We lived through Fake News and Russiagate in 2016. But what we are "seeing" today online pales in comparison. A US warship being bombed. Jim Carrey in Paris. Netanyahu killed in an air strike. Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise in an action movie. All stories where many people could not decipher if what they were seeing was real or not. The blurred reality both online and in real life is going to have dire consequences, not just in how we vote politically but how we live as a society. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. If Churchill only knew what a lie in a digitally viral society could do. We are about to live it.
