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In reply to the discussion: Trump At 43%. Embarrassing, Sickening, Unacceptable. [View all]Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)1. 50% of the population have an IQ of 100 or less.
2. A large percentage of the population get all of their news from TV or radio.
3. The MSM has done an abysmal job of reporting on policy
4. The MSM has treated the election as an episode of The Apprentice
How many people do you think actually read something like Newsweek or Time? If the read at all it is People or Entertainment Weekly (or maybe Field and Stream or Car and Driver), let alone something like The Atlantic or Barron's.
The MSM has completely given up on actually reporting News. They have completely given up on analysing what they report on. Can you imagine a Trump surrogate trying to defend Trump's plan to privatize roads and highways? Or try and discuss the logistics and costs of deporting 4 million people? Have you hears even one talking head discuss the freaking COST of building a wall along the Mexican border?
Have you heard anyone talk about the fact that Trump seems to have absolutely NO idea of how our government works or what the Constitution says? How laws are made? How taxation works?
That's why Trump is running neck and neck with Hillary. That's why we keep getting this POS Congress critters elected, the ones who refuse to do their jobs. The ones who have said publically that if Hillary gets elected they will refuse to fill any SCOTUS vacancies for as long as there is a Democrat in the White House.
And folks, it ain't going to get any better. The US is on a downward spiral to oligarchy/theocracy every bit as bad as what ISIS is doing and I don't know if we can reverse it or not. There doesn't seem to be any will to do so. I truly fear that the US I grew up in is gone forever and I have no idea what is going to rise in its place. Our Democratic Republic is toast.