ship of fools tucker carlson book review

That’s why I enjoyed Tucker Carlson’s book, Ship of Fools. There is usually some truth, but certainly not ALL the truth. Both sides have background agendas which determines the answers they weave. I found that the real reason I never liked, perhaps even feared, politics, is the sheer impossibility of getting clear, objective evidence and sussing out the truth. The recent news about children being detained at the border as part of immigration protocol (something that the left states is essentially a concentration camp and something that the right states is a protective measure to move children away from Coyotes who are using them and is also about legal entry points) is what actually made me realize that while I don’t care for politics for their own sake, or the hubbub that usually goes along with them, there is an implied moral dimension to some political decisions and stances that requires investigation and awareness.īut I’m not convinced by the excuses of either side, each of which seems to too perfectly explain events but in drastically different ways.

I hated the anger and the righteousness on both sides and the more I wanted to get away from it the more the battle was brought to me.īut politics, and to a certain degree of their implied social responsibility, doesn’t go away. At the same time, my normally politically apathetic parents had likewise done an about face, perhaps because of my own forced experiences home time and car time was foiled with endless rants of pundits from the other side and annoying looped Fox news programs such as hypocritical (and to me, even then, personally obnoxious) Bill O’Reilly who despite his “no spin” proclamation never actually let the other side on his show finish a thought, much less propagate a “well balanced” argument. Hard core followers on both sides seem to equate their political stances, and the subsequent tirades, as something akin to “the only true religion.” On the one hand, one of my degrees was in journalism, which ostensibly taught about objectivity but spent more classes bashing Fox news than actually teaching me how to write and avoid any sort of spin either way. Rating: A Book About Current Politics For People On Neither Sideīeing a millennial growing up in Washington DC and going through college here has left me with a fair amount of scars and a general hatred for politics, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise.

Ship of fools tucker carlson book review