Turning the Crowd

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I feel like I’ve had a lot to say in regards to Fox News over the last couple of years.  As an organization, I think they are unethical, overly biased, and unscrupulous.  Their ratings drivers are not journalists, they’re con artists and snake oil salesmen.  So when their message falls on deaf ears, it’s a good day for the country.  Take their most recent snafu.  They conducted a poll of their audience asking how they felt about raising taxes for wealthier Americans.  Their expectation was that the sage Reagan wisdom of Trickle Down economics would shine through, but recent challenges to that logic, by people such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, using history as a lesson, wherein high percentage taxes to wealthy Americans preceded and accompanied our countries most significant economic growth, have begun to shake the faith in the conservative talking point.  Indeed, 70% of the people interviewed in the poll thought that people making over $10 million per year should pay higher taxes.  And 65% thought the same thing for people bringing in over $1 million a year.  Talking over themselves, the talking heads suggested that it’s just the result of brainwashing the idea of fairness into people.  I like to think people, when given the right information, know how to listen.

The Best Republican Ever

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Trump again suggested to the whole wide world that he’s the most popular Republican of all time according to some “poll”.  Which poll is a total mystery, and his claims on top of that are equally bizarre.  He’s still claiming that he’s even more popular in the polls than Abraham Lincoln.  Now, I’ve said this before, but it’s actually IMPOSSIBLE for him to know that.  There were no real polling system in Lincoln’s time.  Also what is he comparing that to?  His popularity at the time?  Because yeah, he presided over a war and basically altered the fabric of the economy by emancipating a race of people, in a time when Racism was still the normal thing.  But Trump won’t be bothered to clear anything up.  He did suggest in his tweet that perhaps someone should check the numbers because this assessment couldn’t possibly be right, and to that, I think we ALL agree.  Mind you, if  you check those numbers and decide there is nothing even remotely truthful about that statement, good luck not being called “fake news”.