Rick Wilson: How Media Dodged the 'Everything Trump Touches Dies' Curse

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14. That certainly is a factor

Whoever controls the paychecks ...

That said, it just is pervasive at the higher levels. You can just see the disdain that higher level journalists have for "liberalism." People like Chuck Todd, to use the term journalist loosely. Yes, there are definitely people like John Heilman who are clearly progressive (sane) but these people who have those biases against liberals that are cast as honest brokers do a LOT of damage.

Watching him do mental gymnastics trying to blame BHO for congressional republicans refusing to work with him to try to create equivalence with Trump is watching democracy rot.

Just as an example.

I also don't think this country has the soul to get past it, either.

Someone on my Facebook feed posted a video of some kind of event where thousands of people attended that they took beat up old cars, set them up to speed off the side of a mountain at high speed into a cavern with a man made pond.

People thought it was cool.

I thought, this is emblematic of where this country is now.

We have a russian psychopath for POTUS, one of our major parties is enabling mass graft of the tax payer dollars, exploding our debt, and is DYING to destroy our social safety nets, but ...

COOL!!!!

Did you see how that old police cruiser's hood shot up into the sky when it hit the rocks!