In the United States who is president is a huge friggin' deal, it is especially a huge friggin' deal when it's a Republican president who will rule as a despot or who clearly aspires to despotic power as the last several have to a greater and merely lesser extent. The longest lasting part of a presidency is the Supreme Court justices who are appointed by the president. With the Rehnquist and Roberts courts revealing that their slogans of judicial restraint appllied only to the relative liberals of the Warren era as they were some of the most active of courts, overturning clear congressional intent in order to push their, frankly fascist ideology, that's a huge friggin' deal as well.
The problem with the leftist media is similar to what's obviously wrong with so many leftist institutions. They are entirely out of touch with the reality we live in in 2016. They pretend that the country is ready for some kind of vague, lame-brained "revolution" which they imagine is going to lead to spontaneous conversion of those blue collar and working poor folks who voted for George W. Bush and they would join the Bernie or Busters TO MAKE A REVOLUTION OF THE LEFT. That's what I've heard from the readers and auditors and viewers of the media of the left. And the more lefty the media, the more deluded and febrile their dreams are. The number of them who believe that or some other absurdist, self-deluded scenario would be the result of a Trump presidency is rather stunningly high.
On the news this morning even NPR is making the observation that Hillary Clinton is really being damaged by the continuing presence of Bernie Sanders in the primaries that are left, even though he has no realistic chance of getting the nomination. They pointed out that Donald Trump isn't getting that kind of attack from within the Republican Party. When Cokie Roberts is making more sense than The Nation, The Progressive, Mother Jones and In These Times, you know things are seriously wrong. The media of the left is encouraging, not only him remaining with the pretense that he is a candidate for the office of the Presidency, but with his attacks on the woman who will be the candidate. As of right now they are publishing people who are encouraging him to run as a spoiler to defeat Hillary Clinton.
When I dropped cable a relative of mine said something about my giving up the then current liberal ghetto hours programming of MSNBC and named a few other of the very few watchable things that were on it. My answer was that if someone dropped a bucket of quarters in a cess pool, I wouldn't jump in to get them. I've come to the conclusion that is essentially the same deal that the leftist magazines, webazines, and the very few established broadcast leftists give us. In order to get the good articles and columns they publish, we get the far more potent counter-productive crack-pots and idiots who care more about their ideology than about reality. We get the even worse idiots who demand everything or they want to burn everything down. Such people have burned down only one thing, the progress that liberals of the past managed to achieve, often having to bear the added burden of such play-leftists and addle-headed radicals of the past.
This year, watching how they've acted when it's become increasingly obvious that the alternatives would be Hillary Clinton or Trump, Cruz or some Republican-fascist apparatchik to be named, how they've been promoting another stunt candidacy when those have been uniformly damaging to the political success of liberalism, I've had enough of them and the people who run those venues of lunacy.
I do think that the leftist media is in the hands of people too affluent, too Ivy League (or its equivalent), too elite, too ideologically fanatical, too wedded to the traditions and lore of the largely New York-Chicago-San Francisco based lunatic left and too entirely uninterested in reality and the real lives of the real underclass. THE VERY REAL UNDERCLASS WHO DO NOT WANT THEIR PROPOSED MARXIST OR ANARCHIST REVOLUTION. THE VERY PEOPLE IN WHOSE INTERST THE PLAY-LEFT PRETENDS TO STRUGGLE DON'T WANT WHAT THEY ARE SELLING AND THEY NEVER WILL. They've been peddling their "revolution" to the workers and the underclass for a century and a half and the workers and underclass obviously haven't wanted it in all that time and are less interested in it today.
They don't learn a thing even from lessons as hard as Bush II-Cheney, for all their formal schooling. They figure they don't need to learn anything because they got it from reading the idiots of the past, from what they read in college or what they imbibed as red-diaper babies from their equally arrogant, condescending and equally addled parents. The hereditary lefties are some of the worst, the ones who remain lefties left from those who formed the great exodus from the left into neo-conservatism. They're really doing the same work, they have had a huge role in defeating liberals and enabling Republican-fascists.
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