This is the best explanation I found:

we have been bombarded with years of “it’s all your fault” propaganda. We’ve been so gaslighted that we pass it on. We do the dirty work for the Man and we do it for free.

A gazillion dollars and the smartest PR people in the world have been deployed on the American populace to make news an endorphin-filled addictive WWE-like us-vs-them sport. I don’t think we can blame people 100% for falling for it. The liberals haven’t offered a compelling counter-narrative and haven’t found a way…

Alcoholism, drug addiction, narcissism or sociopathy combined with authoritarian parenting or religion. All rewarded in business and politics (up to a point). That’s my theory.

What will the WSJ say when Trum harms American, I mean business interests, because it benefits him (or to avoid prosecution for something bad he did before)? It’s not just Trump getting unfairly rich that’s the problem.

I am a middle-aged white woman and I agree with the white male staff’s criticisms of Clinton. There is enough divisive rhetoric about sexism already without calling it out any time someone disagrees with a powerful woman. Yes, there might be some people who are hiding misogyny behind fake political objections, but it…

The new etiquette of being poor: lecturer at a state university, shopping at Goodwill sees the secretary who works for the chairman of her department. Do I speak? Or pretend I don’t recognize her?

I learned through a horrible divorce that once people have chosen sides they’ll grasp at flimsy straws in order to justify that side. But they have to have the flimsy straws; that’s what Trump’s excuses are. It’s not logical. Liberals should stop expecting this to be logical!

We used Line when my daughter was overseas. It’s free and it has stickers. No text fees. Wondering why more people don’t use it.

For comparison only; I don’t think it’s legal to buy overseas (is it?):

Price in England appears to be 49.99 pounds. The US leads the world in medical price-gouging. All the excuses about research are just that.

I was guessing some combination of evangelical Christian and narcisism and sure enough:

50+ year old working women Democrats support Clinton in huge numbers. It’s about anger over sexism. I am in that demographic but I canvassed for Bernie. The young guy I canvassed with was the one who pointed this out. It was 100% among the people we spoke to.

Let’s say the DNC has become corrupt and beholden to money and has almost entirely thrown over it’s “base” (hate that term) on economic issues. How should someone challenge that? The support that Sanders has gotten (mostly from Dems) is almost miraculous given the opposition he has faced. One could argue that if he…

I think the main point of this article was that Facebook might have the power to affect how news is reported and that the way they’re doing it right now is bad because of the way the news is being selected and also because of what it portends for journalism as a career. This whole sneering at people who have…

Thank you both!!!

I live next to 2 houses that are left to rot, lived in by raccoons. There must be tax benefits to landlords/banks that make it more profitable to let a building become a blight. These were rental houses. The landlord could have had $1750 a month from the 2 of them without doing much work, but he let them fall into…

I agree that this was a great story. I was spellbound. And I want to thank the author for doing the work she does. Most of us look away. We either didn’t know (or care) in the first place or we found it too hard to look. Hope hurts and sometimes it’s easier to despair. The NYT has an article about the rise in…

This is a very even-handed article and I appreciate it. Certainty is probably almost always a mistake, especially in politics. However, I have to point out that the idea that the NYDN interview showed that Sanders didn’t know his stuff has been challenged by the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/ups…

If money is dictating policy to the detriment of average people, which it is, then funding downballot races from plutocrat’s money is no better than funding the presidential race with that money.