The Nation article: we must transform the dem. Party

[JCanete]

41. I think the show is worth-while. I've heard them say we need to get that kind of

grass-roots the tea party was about recently, which is definitely forgetting the reality of the tea-party, but they are hardly proudly proclaiming themselves the left tea-party... certainly not in the way you are making the connection.

I don't have any idea what you call credible sources, but there are very few out there that don't have some ridiculously obvious spin. I prefer my news to come with the spin up front. Just because something printed is "factual" doesn't mean the opinion in it, the omissions, and the assumptions in the writing don't entirely present an untruthful narrative. Falsehoods are unacceptable. Lies are unacceptable, but you'll have to point to me where TYT has demonstrated a pattern of running with proven falsehoods. Your characterization that these people aren't informed would have to come with far more specific evidence to convince me, and I would love to see your example of somebody who is by contrast, informed and simultaneously credible. Hopefully you have some suggestions I've never run into.

Just accepting the way government works as the way it has to work, is not a solution. We should be trying to change that, and not all of it can happen in Washington within the system, unless there is an outside clamor for those people inside the system to change it. In fact, the "you don't understand" line always seems to come in the service of limiting possibility...of taking things off the table and excusing our politicians for votes that do not favor the people...like shit, Manchin. What is the value of having a person on our side who votes for a Supreme Court justice that his going to screw his own constituents sideways? That isn't representing his voters. That's leaving them, and us, to the wolves. But right, those are the political realities. That's what we're supposed to understand. That's all in the service of something progressive. Nonsense.