Pragmatists, Ideologues, and Inequality in America

[Crewleader]

Pragmatists, Ideologues, and Inequality in America

Friday, November 8, 2013

by Robert Reich


How will the 2016 election be framed? What will be America’s choice?

If the coverage of last week’s two big winners offers a guide, the choice will be between “pragmatism” and “ideology.”

The Washington Post called Chris Christie’s huge gubernatorial victory a “clear signal in favor of pragmatic, as opposed to ideological, governance.”

But the mainstream media used a different adjective to describe Bill de Blasio, last week’s other landslide victor. The New York Times, for example, wrote of “the rise of the left-leaning Mr. de Blasio.”

Again and again, Christie is described as the pragmatist; De Blasio, the lefty.

http://robertreich.org/post/66403148300

[Laelth]

1. Excellent essay. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[Warpy]

2. And the propaganda mills keep churning

Kudos to Reich for pointing out the loaded language even "objective" news sources are using these days that bury any candidate or victor the plutocracy doesn't like while exalting the ones they do.

[jtuck004]

3. I find that people sometimes use "pragmatist" instead of the more correctly descriptive "spineless..

...coward devoid of any principled stand that can't be bought for a nickel".

Not always, but, then again, I don't have to worry about word count.