Letter to the editor: Division and corruption in America

Did you ever think you’d see America so divided and corrupted as it is today?

Yes, I’m aware there are many great people doing great things all over the place, but sometimes it seems overshadowed by all the craziness, violence, deceit and moral decay.

Mass shootings daily, cities imploding and levels of corruption in our government and media unequaled in our history. Educational decline, and a lack of historical appreciation, begets ignorance, which foments citizen-supported attacks on our Constitution and freedoms.

All the while, the most corrupt media in American history carefully cherry-picks what to report. Keep in mind there are six or seven media conglomerates that control the vast majority of what we are allowed to know. As their ultimate goal is profits, there is no inclination to tell the truth. National news is a farce. It’s so full of slanted stories and lies by omission that it’s a clown show. Nothing that goes against a network’s bias is covered fairly. Just so they can play to their audience.

That happy-go-lucky news person you’re riveted to every night, who tells you about the cat in the tree or the bear on the loose, is nothing more than an entertainer, giving you what some producer thinks you can handle. Barring a catastrophe, real news is at a minimum. Economics says they must give their audience what they want, so we’re fed pablum.

It’s hard to believe we are living the fall of the Roman Empire and 1984 simultaneously.

Tim Kaczmarek

Natrona Heights