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Getting Non-Partisan Political Information In A Political World

By Nora Jennings


Facts, as they say, are stubborn things. They must be embraced by all sides in any political discussion. The facts of any issue must be used to participate fully in an informed debate about any policy decision. They are often not and that is one of the major reasons non-partisan political information is very hard to find. That is because to be truly non partisan, facts must back it up.

Since facts should be at the bottom of any information that is useful for policy decisions, it should follow that these will be valued above all else. This is not the case as the politicians want people to believe that person is the truthful one and the opposition party can not be believed. The statements, often written by people who only present a biased look at things, are the order of the day.

Looking to the dominant media does little in the search for this non partisan data. To be truly non partisan is to report facts, wherever they are and whatever they reveal. Most media sources will be aligned with one side or the other. They will report what that political ideology demands they write or present on radio or television. This usually falls on only one side of the aisle.

Debates, held in many venues and for various reasons are not helpful in understanding what the non partisan information is. This is accomplished by maintaining a selection of moderators who have already sworn to their sides to be helpful to one side over the other. A moderator having a copy of a press conference who misreads them in assisting their candidate makes an emotional presentation that is all the audience hears.

One of the many casualties of political correctness is communication and, with it gone, non partisanship is left by the wayside. Without being able to communicate, facts can not be heard and what passes for discussion is often simply yelling from one side and acquiescence from the other. The emotional outbursts are then taken as the message and these are very seldom based on facts.

Even when the vast majority of politicians and other media presenters show themselves to be nonfactual, people still need to hear what is going on in a fairly straight forward way. They need to be able to believe and accept their elected officials word for many things they are not privy to. Knowing they are not getting that, they must must then try to identify where else they can get the non partisan facts they need.

Many people, in order to find out the facts about any issue, think they can do this by reading, viewing or listening to all sides and making their own determination. This is, however, hard work and many find it too difficult. They go to websites that suggest they are non partisan only to find they are not. They are faced with still more emotionalism about issues such as gun control or the state of healthcare.

Getting to the heart of each matter, which is the facts that are relevant, must come from your own common core. Check out the media reports and look past the political correctness as it does not help you. Look at the emotional heart strings that are pulled and know that this is done because there are no facts with which to back them up. Understand that free people need to know who they can trust and on who it is misplaced.




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