Bad Alignments

I don't know how to read the present day news cycle,
which, from what it says, does more than recycle
the old human conflicts it says it is 'just reporting'.

These reports add a pointless cruelty into life,
where in reports of wars protagonists of wars
can't hear themselves speak, and won't listen
to how entrenched their enemies have become
in their opposing positions.

And that is just the foreigners who disagree.

There are plenty of folk in my own country
who for being unable to agree with those
who they oppose find the corresponding side
in, from Russia to the USA, to side with
and to underline their domestic position. 

To call such positioning 'a bad alignment'
reproaches it all too lightly, and further
fails to address how such alignments leave us
lacking in inclusivity, polarised, and divided,