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Originally Posted by automaton 3
@ 2Stonebirds
I saw a video highlighting this. There appeared to be thousands of empty seats. No mention of this in the mainstream news outlets though that I have seen.
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I was listening to/watching the NPR/PBS coverage of the DNC last night and they very much brought this to attention repeatedly. I also saw it mentioned at least on CBS' coverage earlier in the day, though I wasn't watching them for primetime, so perhaps they didn't then.
No less coverage of this walkout than the walkout at the RNC last week.
If the media was
really all that liberal--don't you think Bernie Sanders would've gotten more attention than he did? Wouldn't CNN etc have given him the kind of press they handed off to Trump, if they really had this strong liberal agenda? He was the most liberal candidate.
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Originally Posted by Buster
Nonsense.
Dichotomies can be useful, as policy decisions can regularly be reduced to dichotomies: do we raise taxes or lower taxes, do we make the government bigger or smaller.
Is it useful to view the world exclusively with ONE dichotomy/spectrum? No.
But spectra can be useful to analyze all sorts of issues.
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Not even close, because you have Tea Party social/economic conservatives who want small government re: taxes/gun laws, but big government re: LGBT rights and women's rights. You have libertarians who go right with economic policy but left on social issues. You have liberals who support a social safety net and universal health care but want the government to respect privacy more.
Most tax policy changes come with some groups having their taxes raised and others having theirs lowered. Politics isn't a black/white zero sum game. It's a million different shades of grey.
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's who's doing the chastising. Stop calling people stupid.
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So liberals are calling people stupid, but Trump and the GOP are basically claiming that the left/Dems hate America.
Both sides are chastising for different reasons.