What are some good places to start getting acquainted with American politics in as unbiased a manner as possible?
What are some good places to start getting acquainted with American politics in as unbiased a manner as possible?
What with the recent development in the supreme courts I'm feeling a necessity to do what I can with the time left, politically.
However, aside from the most rudimentary basic terms I am basically completely ignorant to all politics on a state and federal level, and while I'd love to sit here and self loathe for my idiocy of not learning before it was important I need to start catching up and figuring out what I should be voting on and why.
Of course I'm deathly afraid that indiscriminately googling will lead to me learning biased and compromised knowledge from sites that I don't even know are biased, ending up with a skewed and inaccurate understanding.
While I know I could still be led astray by you guys, I figured it better to ask somewhere like here than to just wander off into the internet, so can anybody help me and people like me to start getting equipped?
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Stop worrying about bias and start caring about reality. Judge every claim on the merit of the evidence presented for it. That's all there is to it, really.
You are right, but know that it can be hard for someone to judge claims.
And to answer OP: I'd say try to read qualitative, well established newspapers. They often have various overview articles and if you read articles from a couple of them then you should get a diverse view
In general, this is great advice. But have you seen the dreck that comes out of the nyt lately?
I just mean fundamentally understanding the way the law works from the bottom up, and trying to get a handle on the ramifications that may not be obvious when it comes to the things I can vote for, especially different government positions in local and federal.
I would hate to learn about this from a biased site that omits certain information or something so that I'm crippled in my understanding
To really do that you'd have to get a law degree. And every information source has some sort of bias. The way to go is look at stuff from a variety of sources.
I can understand that. So it seems I can find a subject that may be important, read articles from each side and be able to discern the truth from the differences between them all
The "truth" is often elusive. Of course there are objective facts that can be ascertained by empirical study. But many issues, especially in politics, are based in value judgements, so there isn't really an objective truth. However, if you go by the empirical facts, it's usually easy to see who is arguing in good faith and who isn't.