Jackson Jambalaya

The common denominator is more than a lack of trust it’s an inability to understand basic concepts combined with lies about scope and goals and most importantly benefits for those involved. The nucleus is ignorance and those in charge have in bad faith manipulated the ignorant stoking fires of hatred and fear. Now we have ignorant (mental) people driving trucks into churches, shooting “titular heads” of “movements” and waiting for the next episode of reality “get even death” to drop on their phones. How does this season end? Not well I’m afraid…not well.

Sid, I submit most of the distrust and societal conflict is driven by the media. Jimmy Kimmel is a great example. His nightly monologue is negative and jaded toward the current administration. He's just one of many. One could argue this post perpetuates that negative "we are broken" narrative. The media can do better.

“False stories, viral conspiracy theories, and partisan memes spread faster than facts.”

And what are “facts,” Sid? Where do “facts” come from?

I wonder what Mr Salter regards as “credible journalism”. Mississippi Today perchance?

I think Salter is right about this. No one trusts the "others" these days. Consumer confidence is also at a low point. People are reluctant to spend money because we don't know what tariffs will do to our purchasing power. While we have the "inflation index" to tell us if the price of food is inflated, we don't have a "quality of food index" to tell us that the pound of zucchini or tomatoes we bought two years ago was of higher quality than the pound of zucchini or tomatoes we buy today for the same price as two years ago, is of lesser quality. There's an increasing feeling of unease about where this country is headed.

you are right Sid, broken trust has totally eroded our identity, b/c we allowed the absurdity of a few to speak louder than the truth of many b/c the many are polite and just want to live life free. We allowed:
-the press to become editorialist and not demand real news coverage
-the likes of Benny Thompson to not be held accountable for the Jan6 hearings
-for the elected leadership of Jackson to literallly destroy a great city by not running the business of being a functioning municipality
-by allowing our schools to longer require our kids to become functioning members of society
-allowing men to compete in women's sports and actually trying to defend that
-by crippling people with tax after tax and still having broken roads and non functioning governmental entities
-by caving in to lawsuits that prevent us from keeping our cities clean and safe
-by shutting governmental structure down and still have congress receive pay
-by allowing the fabric of this nation to cave to immoral standards
You want to see trust repaired in our nation, you are seeing it now by a return to to common sense, and alot of us remember the journalist you used to be long ago, and wish you would return to that same common sense over the passive aggressive gaslighting you take by trying to defend liberal policies and individuals that would break this nation just to push an agenda...... but that's just my 2 cents

Fauci admitted the six-foot distance figure was made up and he had no science to support it. These so-called institutions supported full shutdowns of schools even though it was proven the kids had lower rates of transmission and didn't transmit it to families . Europe kept theirs open and suffered no problems. Fauci hid his involvement with the Wuhan lab and gain of function research. Fauci created and coordinated the publication of a letter in the Lancet slamming lab leak theory and making it seem there was overwhelming support for the wet market theory. Then there is the matter of the vaccines. There is a place for such vaccines but any concerns about side effects were brushed aside. Now we know there are side effects for some. Doctors who opposed shutdowns and lockdowns were ostracized by the "institutions" led by Fauci as well as banned on social media. And you wonder why trust has fallen?

I'm afraid that like in many other democracies, it's a one man/ one party takeover of all the institutions of government and ignoring the rule of law. There is no "balance of power" as Founders envisioned. Benjamin Franklin said, " We have a democratic republic if we can keep it". We have failed to keep it. It's too late for mid-terms to solve it now that all the systems of checks and balances have been taken over.
This was never a game. It was a coup and now a fait accompli. And, Republicans who haven't been to invited to or paid dues for Mar a Lago to kiss the ring will find they aren't going to benefit as they imagine. Some of the politicians will learn they are not the most important Republicans in Mississippi. It's the guys with the money honey...lots of it. "Enforcers" are just " the help".
Some of you should have read history books on the rise and fall of societies that once prospered.

Status Quo Sid strikes again.

Also keep in mind that we are now dealing with a huge segment of the country, including some who are in seats of government, who think men can get pregnant, males should be allowed to pretend they are females in order to compete in women's sports, and they see nothing wrong with policies that allow men to follow little girls into restrooms.The list of depraved positions gets longer every day. It's not just a lack of trust, or a political disagreement. Most of us feel we are not even close to being the same as these people.