Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

I have never been to America yet I have extremely strong and ingrained beliefs about its culture, people and politics. Some of these beliefs I think are true and come partly from the obsessive reading of the American thinking half's outrage against their hijacking. Some beliefs are very likely prejudiced and come from stereotypes most of us from European stock have nurtured since at least the Nixon years. One thing I am wondering the most is how there can be such a HUGE divide in America between the well-informed, decent, well-educated, non-ignorant fighters against the evil empire and the ignorant, bigotted, religious nuts who have lost their moral and ethical compass altogether and sold out to greed and spin as long as the flag is dragged over their eyes and the bible is thumped on their heads...

Pretty much every other country on this planet has a much larger majority of people who can see the havoc and destruction America's greed for global hegemony wreaks, even if those countries are poorer, less educated and more prone to religious stereotypes. Why do so few Americans feel strong enough to inform themselves, stop listening to the lies of their mainstream media and the deceit oozing from every pore of almost every politician, republican AND democrat? Why does it seem so fvcking obvious to you left-wing bloggers and the rest of the world that what you/we se and uncover every single day is an outrage and pure, unadulterated EVIL, yet there are the same amount of right-wing blogs, not to mention the corrupt mainstream journalists and talking heads that throw a spin on every single one of those (in our eyes obvious and undeniable) truths and seem to feel much more righteously appalled by the 'conspiracy theories' of baby-killing, same-sex crazed left wing liberals?

I feel so helpless seeing this - to my eyes impossible - division of what seems so obviously right and true and fair and what is really going on, particularly seeing I am on the losing side of the battle. So I wonder... even though they seem like the rants of the incurably insane, whenever I accidentally stray onto a right-wing blog or comment about daily affairs, are we really that absolutely, infallibly truthful and right in our opinions in comparison? In my heart I feel that I KNOW what is true and morally right, without needing an outdated copper age version of Grimm's fairy tales guiding me, but can it really be that us humans are intrinsically THAT morally divided that the plain, cold truth can so easily be spun to mean the exact opposite?

And also, are the people who refuse to see the truth as we see it, really evilly manipulating it to further their own greed and religious delusions or do they truly, sincerely believe in their heart they are right as much as I do? Maybe it's just me but I am sincerely starting to believe I am losing my grasp on reality being confronted with this dilemma on a daily basis. Priding myself as a realist, being a scientist, being unblemished by any nationalist or religious ideologies, I am coming to the point where I wonder if it's really the world that is going THAT insane or if maybe I am being sucked in by left-wing idealogues and spin-masters? Obviously, I have to go with what my heart, my head and my eyes tell me and count myself to be in the morally righteous but seemingly helpless majority of the ones who see the corruption and greed and evil coming from your country these past 30 years.

How on earth do YOU deal being confronted with it every single day, every time you open a newspaper or turn on the TV or talk to your nice (but unfortunately completely deluded) neighbour? How do you keep your conviction strong and true when confronted by friends, colleagues and sometimes even family members who tell you that you are a nutzoid conspiracy theorist who hates America and wants to kill babies?

After this immensely verbose (I obviously still have to learn to curb my rantings) outburst what I really want to tell you, my obsessively-read American left-wing bloggers is:

 THANK YOU for keeping your convictions and seeing the truth and not getting distracted and not getting sucked into right-wing spin politics and lies and for keeping the hope that we can all make a difference. It's all that keeps me from despairing after reading the headlines (and between them) every day. I take my hat off to you all.