It doesn't matter which brand of news one turns to, each of them obsesses about news that is far away from here. Whiny democrats, a president who obfuscates the truth, troubles with other countries, natural disasters around the world. Things far away from us, and we get in a big tizzy everywhere we go.
Around here the flood waters continue to rise, wiping out crops and even a few homes. Our city streets continue to crumble because of lack of maintenance, and families continue to split apart due to divorce and abuse. Few of these things make any kind of Big News coverage of course, until people start dying or homes get swept away live on a helicopter shot.
But these things are far more important to our daily lives than whatever Dimwit Donnie and the clowns around him continue to do. Why don't we think more about these things? Why don't we see the broken nearby and heal where we can? Why don't we ensure that our families are loved? Why don't we sandbag here and now to keep the flood waters out?
Years ago I started having to wear contacts to see things far away, but in recent years I have had trouble seeing things up close due to an astygmatism (I think that's how it's spelled). Take the contacts out, and I see just fine up close, but I'd rather keep wearing my contacts and then struggle with seeing things nearby. Isn't this how our vision for the world around us is? We'd rather take the trouble to see far off than see things nearby.
