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The mainstream media does this false equivalency thing to aid the GOP. You know, Dems say the sky is blue, while the GOP contends it's orange. We report, you decide. That false equivalency is designed to elevate pure nonsense to an equal status with facts or science. And that nonsense is always something that makes money for one of their special interest groups, be it through lower taxes or environmental policy, etc,. The media does it because, in their present form, consolidated into the hands of 5 or so companies, those companies owe their very existence to GOP for supporting ownership deregulation in the media. I call it a 'soft conspiracy'. Because the media, in it's current incarnation, owes its very existence to the GOP (and corporatist Democrats) the media is loath to draw attention to even the most obvious flaws and falsehoods in the GOP.
Because of that media environment it's rare when a pundit within the mainstream media rips through the BS with such joyous abandon. Young people do not like the GOP. They don't see race, they don't care what your sexual orientation is, they're into localism and they're concerned about the environment. She's dead on there. The tide has turned. That doesn't mean that the GOP is going away, but the center is shifting back to the left. We've been heading to the right for 30 years, there's a sea change happening and she's calling it. Believe me, I've lived it, I'm 54.
The most refreshing thing, is to watch her take a razor to the Republican holly cow of supply side, trickle down, voodoo economics. She stopped just short of calling what it really is, a scam, but at least she dismissed it as a complete failure as an economic policy if it was really intended to improve the economy generally. It is a scam. Republicans are concerned about money and power. If supply side economics were truly intended to improve the economy generally, it would be the worst economic policy failure ever. So it's like saying GOP is bad at the one thing they truly care about, money. Well they're not, and supply side economics shifted all of the money to them. It wasn't the worst economic policy ever, it was the best scam in history. It worked like a charm. The question now is, how do they maintain the inequality they've created. Propaganda has it's limits. Police state? Certainly some of that. But the scam is now exposed for all to see. They have created the circumstances that they assured us would create general prosperity and it doesn't. We need more brave pundits like Ms. Ball here who'll call it out for the BS that it is. The emperor has no clothes. She simply and confidently stated the obvious. We need a lot more of that.
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