I saw a newspiece yesterday that basically blames China for all the drug shortages. And another the day before with the good old "but at what cost".
So here is a very good comment I read over at Hexbear and copied to my clipboard:
"The liberal version of history coincides with the reactionary version of history because they both refuse to question the premises of capitalism. That is they both agree more over capitalism and Western Hegemony than they disagree about specific cultural issues. They don't all have to be in the same room, coordinating on a narrative, because they all share the same boundaries of inquiry. So the same kind of stuff gets written without active coordination. This is a roundabout way to say they're all of the same class. They have class solidarity.
A liberal news source will talk about how good and downtrodden immigrants are. A conservative news source will talk about how all immigrants are drug dealers. But they don't disagree that there both needs to be immigration or that it needs to be regulated. A good real world example of this is Democrats flipping out over Trump's racism and then upping funding for "border security" and advocating for a tech wall.
Neither question the fundamental assumptions about immigration. Both advocate for the same idea, just in different abstractions.
Nobody actually thinks the person who writes a bleeding heart article gets up from their chair and sits at a different desk where they write about caravans of cartel members. Though you do get the same person/organization drifting into sounding like their opposition, like the NYT. Which illustrates, again, that they're the same class and ultimately share the same goals and fears.
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