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Spiderbaby's avatar

Actually, I think the MSM is populated by shameless careerists who want to maintain access to our sleazy political class & their nice paycheck so they do what they're told.

Rachel Maddow makes a huge sum of money for reading a teleprompter. Corporate America isn't paying that amount of money to "truth tellers,' they pay it for good propagandists who are adept at using their invented on air personality to sell political snake oil to the rubes.

Whatever your feelings about Chomsky may be, and mine aren't very good either, his book, Manufacturing Consent, was spot on.

Journalism, as Matt has pointed out, used to be a working class endeavor but is now the end result of a high priced college degree & is primarily the purview of our betters. Folk like that are the real core of the Democratic Party these days not socialist leftists.

If socialism was the end goal the Dems wouldn't have harpooned the great white Sanders whale twice in exchange for Neo-liberal global corporatists like Clinton & Biden.

The disgruntled black folk & trans folk & gay folk, etc., are, in my opinion, nothing more than useful idiots to be discarded at a later date.

The Israel/Palestine conflict has made that painfully obvious. TPTB loved "decolonization" when it could be applied to demonizing white Republicans but when it was aimed at Israel they discarded that shit like it was just that, a handful of shit.

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George Q Tyrebyter's avatar

Like many public intellectual scientists, Chomsky got to his position by his tremendous intellect and contributions to linguistics. I don't agree with him politically, but his science side is very good.

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Mara's avatar

Brilliantly put, and thanks for making the point about the Great White Socialist Whale Sanders. I struggle with why more people don’t see that or point it out.

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Spiderbaby's avatar

Thanks

Just one of many "Things To make You Go...WTF guys? Do you people have blinders on? It's glaringly freaking obvious, don't ya think?

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DMC's avatar

Good points - i think these folks talk a good game on Socialism but are scared to death of its actual implementation.

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