Not really. It's more a regional thing. Liberals tend to live on the coasts, while conservatives tend to be in the south and midwest. It's often derisively referred to as "flyover country" because liberals ostensibly hate Middle America and would rather fly over it than drive through it.
Oh I see
That's one of the biggest changes I've noticed about liberals over the course of my lifetime. They used to be sympathetic to the lower classes, but at some point, they started expressing nothing but scorn and derision. They're so quick to derogate people for being "hillbillies," "trailer trash," "rednecks," and/or "living in their mother's basement." Liberal identity politics has become so utterly classist, it isn't funny. I would bet that half the people who voted for Trump wouldn't have done so if liberals had shown more empathy to the working classes.
Ahh so that’s where “the left doesn’t equal liberal” comes from?
Because all the dirty commie/lefty Americans I know also lament the same thing
I meant insofar as we have what we got and what we got might not be entirely accurate/filled with bias
It’s pretty good. Each season focuses on a different “section” of the city, introducing new characters and their own unique struggles with the system and how each feeds into the other. Whilst also retaining the original cast.
It also has Littlefinger from Game of Thrones lol
Possibly, although I haven't had much exposure to Australian media to make any comparisons. My observation has been that the American media have put forth a lot of anti-drug propaganda supporting the War on Drugs, without any equal time given to the other side. There was an organization called the Partnership for a Drug-Free America which put out some of the most brazenly ridiculous propaganda one could imagine.
Honestly I was referring to American media. I grew up on movies and TV shows who’s entire premise was how destructive the War on Drugs actually is. (The movie Traffic for instance. Or the aforementioned The Wire.)
Ours focuses more on our own challenges. We don’t have the fervent war on drugs that America has (though we still have one, to be sure.) We do have government sponsored ads trying to get sympathy for hospital workers having to deal with the antics of addicts though. If that counts?
I would call it the Reefer Madness Effect. Sometimes, propaganda can become so comically ridiculous that it has the opposite effect than what was intended.
True.
Also Reefer Madness is awesome!!! I think there’s even a musical now. My friends introduced that masterpiece to me in High school. We may or may not have been high at the time. Ahem.
