Spend enough time around the news cycle and you start to notice a pattern. You don’t have to sit there watching it for hours. It’s just there, in the background, in your feed, in passing conversations. Headlines, sound bites, quick updates. You hear enough of it, and eventually it starts to shape how you think. And most of the time, the tone is the same. Negative. Uncertain. Slowing down. People absorb it without questioning it, and then they act based on what they believe is happening.