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Germany was perhaps a bit later in the game, but by now we've caught up and people are polarized to an extent we haven't seen since the end of WWII. Any news that doesn't fit your particular point of view is quickly decried as Systemmedien, a term whose usage makes me ache as it is borrowed from what the Nazis called the press in the Weimar Republic ("Systempresse"). I just read an article how the COVID pandemic has dug the trenches even deeper and how fringe groups that never had much to with one another like anti-migration, anti-vaxxers, anti-EU, anti-conservation and anti-Germany-in-its-current-form-as-a-carrier-of-statehood have morphed together into this numb nihilist anti-stance.
I suspect that Al is well aware of the story. He spent some years teaching at Texas A&M. Poor guy.
No, I haven't heard anything on the radio these days, no doubt you're right. That doesn't make her songwriting any less shitty.
You don't bring me anything but down
Everything is crashing to the groun'
or
I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up
Over and over again. Very deep.