Conservative: Our ‘Willful Blindness’ Problem

Many “problems in this country” stem from “our tendency to see what we want to see, instead of what is actually there,” laments National Review’s Jim Geraghty. Democrats especially “rarely recognize when they’ve screwed up” since “significant portions of our media environment define their mission as telling you, ‘Here’s what’s going on, and here’s why it shows that Democrats are good and why Republicans are bad.’ ” So Republicans “know what’s being discussed in the mainstream media” while Dems “don’t encounter conservative media unless they deliberately seek it out.” Yet “it’s in everyone’s interest to have the full picture, not just a carefully cropped and airbrushed image designed to convince you that one political party contains the good guys and the other contains the bad guys.”