Perhaps the simplest explanation is the best as it usually is (Reply #71)

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Response to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:14 AM

mythology (9,527 posts)

71. Perhaps the simplest explanation is the best as it usually is

She is very smart and realizes that those connections that you think are so obvious and so concrete, really aren't.

For example, a number of economists don't find that the so-called repeal of Glass-Steagall had an appreciable impact on the 2007 banking crisis as the repeal was only for a small part of the act and the firms that failed weren't granted new less-regulated power by the partial repeal of Glass-Steagall.

Likewise the case against free trade isn't nearly as cut and dried as some wish to pretend it is. Plant closing related job losses didn't increase after NAFTA. The decline in manufacturing jobs coincides with increases in automation and worker productivity that have nothing to do with NAFTA. To pretend that the issue is black and white is simplistic.

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73 replies	Author	Time	Post
How can a brilliant political scientist like Rachel seem oblivious to the DLC? [View all]	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	OP
Bernie has no interest in the party. It's just a vehicle for him. n/t	Lucinda	Apr 2016	#1
Bernie plans to lead the Democratic Party. Whether he gets that opportunity is a different question	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#8
No he doesn't. If he did he, would be keeping his word and be working towards	Lucinda	Apr 2016	#11
The POTUS is the leader of the Democratic Party. Starting to sound like Clinton supporters don't	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#19
bernie plans to be president. the democratic party is just his temporary vehicle nt	msongs	Apr 2016	#35
Nope, he said he's taking it with him. Sounds like you guys would drop out if he got the nomination	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#37
LOL	Lucinda	Apr 2016	#56
No, sound like the DLC and Clinton supporters are willing to shove old school democrats...	daleanime	Apr 2016	#53
Oh, gobbledeegook.	pangaia	Apr 2016	#10
Bernie Sanders on Monday told NBC’s Chuck Todd that he ran as a Democrat to get more media coverage.	Lucinda	Apr 2016	#16
That's a different thread. POTUS = leader of Democratic Party	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#20
Bernie has no interest in the Dem party and has exhibited no leadership skills	Lucinda	Apr 2016	#34
So what.	pangaia	Apr 2016	#62
What a bunch of hooey	Trajan	Apr 2016	#21
I've noticed you posting some pretty ominous reponses ...	1StrongBlackMan	Apr 2016	#44
nah, he has no interest in the party, he only caucused with it his whole career.	Punkingal	Apr 2016	#28
The party is there to be used. Bernie wants a better America. Bernie's vision	Ed Suspicious	Apr 2016	#57
The party, seemingly, has no interest in Bernie.	Ed Suspicious	Apr 2016	#58
Bernie only added "Democratic" to Socialist when he was thinking about running for POTUS	redstateblues	Apr 2016	#66
It is a label and running as third party could split votes. That what you want?	snowy owl	Apr 2016	#70
Maybe you should step back and think about your question.	Buzz Clik	Apr 2016	#2
She's not oblivious, she's been purchased.	dchill	Apr 2016	#3
Really?! Is that all ya got...just CT's. I trust Maddow more than you!	KelleyD	Apr 2016	#31
OK.	dchill	Apr 2016	#47
She's getting $7 million a year	Art_from_Ark	Apr 2016	#4
It is very hard to recognize the thruth when your paycheck depends on not seeing it.	Vincardog	Apr 2016	#33
She's well paid to be oblivious to it.	CharlotteVale	Apr 2016	#5
It sounds like she's playing dumb. It's what she's getting paid for after all.	Broward	Apr 2016	#6
Well, My Thunder Has Been STOLEN By At Least Four Ahead of Me...Hillary Is BOUGHT and PAID FOR Shill	CorporatistNation	Apr 2016	#12
Bernie was original member of the progressive caucus	kcjohn1	Apr 2016	#7
Perfectly said.	pangaia	Apr 2016	#13
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $	pangaia	Apr 2016	#9
^^^ This ^^^	cantbeserious	Apr 2016	#29
you got it.	840high	Apr 2016	#60
yep - lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$	SoLeftIAmRight	Apr 2016	#69
Money often buys learned incompetence among media types.	leveymg	Apr 2016	#14
Upton Sinclair explained this long ago.	JackRiddler	Apr 2016	#15
+1	Electric Monk	Apr 2016	#23
Yep. She took the money. nt	silvershadow	Apr 2016	#24
Jeez, I wrote this 5 years ago!	JackRiddler	Apr 2016	#42
Thank you for the comment and link. I'm just catching up to my posts	silvershadow	Apr 2016	#73
7 million a year can make you forget that stuff.	litlbilly	Apr 2016	#17
Because she makes 7 figures	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2016	#18
She's paid to know autonomously which details to miss, of course.	JackRiddler	Apr 2016	#30
Her dissertation doesn't help in this thread. I'll start a thread about her ignorance of HIV in	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#43
Interesting.	JackRiddler	Apr 2016	#45
Maybe I misunderstood your post. My bad.	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#48
Rachel, Chris Hayes, Carville,..it's bought and paid for amnesia..	tokenlib	Apr 2016	#22
I got used to Rachel's lost objectivity, but Hayes is starting to make me sad. Didn't anticipate it.	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#25
They know the history as well as we do.	Kalidurga	Apr 2016	#32
This message was self-deleted by its author	silvershadow	Apr 2016	#51
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair...	Califonz	Apr 2016	#26
Yep. Beat me to it	Doctor_J	Apr 2016	#39
Answer: Millions of dollars and a new social circle.	revbones	Apr 2016	#27
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing nt	BernieforPres2016	Apr 2016	#36
Wow...you all are just something else.	KelleyD	Apr 2016	#38
Simply pointing out the New Dem/Third Way/DLC Clinton linkage is not hate...	tokenlib	Apr 2016	#46
And you know this for sure!?!	KelleyD	Apr 2016	#52
Seems you drank a lot	840high	Apr 2016	#64
lol Where's the CT? You guys are so blinded by your loyalty to Hillary, you can't see the demise of	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#67
I asked her directly. Let's see if I get blocked.	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#40
Too easy on Rachel. She sold out.	snowy owl	Apr 2016	#41
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$	Skwmom	Apr 2016	#49
I never could stand her	yourpaljoey	Apr 2016	#50
I thought everyone enjoyed her 20 minute "Purple Drank" set ups to her lead story	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Apr 2016	#54
I was not a fan of the purple drank :)	yourpaljoey	Apr 2016	#55
Maybe she's not so	840high	Apr 2016	#59
She doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed. n/t	Skwmom	Apr 2016	#61
The way she presents a story	840high	Apr 2016	#65
x10 Thanks for saying it. I thought it just me!	snowy owl	Apr 2016	#68
Cha-ching!	Little_Wing	Apr 2016	#63
Perhaps the simplest explanation is the best as it usually is	mythology	Apr 2016	#71
A smart person would understand the damage done by NAFTA and the repeal of Glass-Steagall. n/t	Skwmom	Apr 2016	#72

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