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JCanete

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6. This has been true for a very long time, and should be stated more often. Of course, the reasons it
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:09 PM
Feb 2017

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has persisted are two-fold. For starters, Republicans are the authoritarian party, so their base is typically more concerned with teams and nationalistic bullshit than idealism and heavy mental lifting.

But second, this is the corporate media's game. Big money makes out when Republicans win...its a fricken giveaway, so no surprise, over time the media personnel that these stations and papers have accrued are more and more "centrist," and less and less pit-bulls when it comes to getting at the underlying, or even blatant, facts.

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