Non-Partisan Political Information Is Hard To Find

By Serena Price


Non-partisan political information is sometimes referred to as facts. They are not referred to in that way by the presenters of most news accounts or by the political persons most often quoted by those news stories. This would get in the way of what these individuals want to tell people about whatever they are working on, legislatively. The facts get in the way of a good emotional story about why the country should get behind something they do not want.

The media does not look for this type of information as it does fit in their template for their world view. All of the facts interfere with their partners in political circles, so those must be left out of news coverage. The fourth estate has decided their allegiance does not reside in the people but in the masterminds they have helped create.

Even on the Internet, there is trouble finding this type of factual information. Some websites or blogs will suggest they offer balanced coverage. They will often be fairly straight forward, however, the larger portion of them have some ax to grind as far as which side they are rooting for. There are a few tests that can be conducted to determine the objectivity or truthfulness of these and other sources of data.

An easy test to conduct for the purpose of finding the elusive non partisan information would be to check on the emotional tugs it contains. The harsh rhetoric is also a clear indication this piece is not presenting facts. The effort, in the piece, to get the reader to allow something to be done, right now, is also a danger sign that you are not getting the information to make a rational, well considered decision.

Partisan talking points, about the gun control issue, will tell us that there are too many guns in the hands of people. They will not tell us that our second amendment rights are in the US Constitution. They will tell us that a law abiding citizen with a gun is just one more gun on the street. The emotional pull is for everyone to believe that a law abiding gun owner can become a criminal quite easily. That is why they want to do something, right now.

The facts that are rarely, if ever, published tend to show the difference between law abiding gun owners and what happens in the many shootings the media report on. Gun restriction laws do not curb crime as the harshest laws are in cities with the highest crime rates. Mental health issues are only marginally mentioned and nothing is proposed in the legislative items that purport to be fixes for this touchy problem.

All of the facts that can help people form the opinions that are needed to see that cooler heads prevail is not made available to them easily. The emotional pulling of the heart strings, it seems, is more important than doing the informed thing. Most of the politicos appreciate everything being done to keep the facts away from people who would otherwise not vote for them if they knew the truth.

Many people would believe that the facts and non-partisan political information will come out in the political debates. They would be mislead about this as the media has their people installed as the moderators in most of these debates and coverage is one sided, as well. The participants, on both sides, will be paired off with one side and their emotion driven appeals for things people do not want against another side that might argue with them but not much.




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