TYT has lost the plot

[JCanete]

110. I see money in politics as the most egregious thing yes, not because it is the thing itself, but

because everything else is impacted by it. As you must well know, the GOP is incredibly flexible when it comes to any principle under the Sun. It doesn't really care about social issues. It USES social issues to trick people into voting for it, in service always, of the almighty dollar. That means it affects how the media talks about policing and race and drugs and women and immigrants, intellectuals, scientists, etc. It uses implicit misogyny and it uses racism, and it builds on the worst of these people...taps into their most ludicrous fears and justifies their worst instincts, BECAUSE it wants them to pay attention to the wrong things..BECAUSE it wants them to be okay with them stealing from and disenfranchising others, and because it wants them to be totally blinded to the fact that they are also being stolen from.

Given that it has kept regressive anti-scientific, counter-factual narratives alive in the service of that one thing, I'm interested to know what you think is more of a core issue.

As to Sanders repeating talking points...you'd have to give me specific examples. Of course he does, as all politicians do when they are appropriate, and he is bringing these ideas into the public discourse. I think we may hear different things, and what you might call repeating a talking point, I might call defending a position on solid grounds. I haven't heard him get schooled on something that he simply failed to address by retreating to talking points, but if you have examples...I'll entertain them.