Robert B. Reich doesn’t seem to realize that Trump was presenting himself as “justice” and “retribution” precisely as opposed to people like Robert B. Reich.
Woody Guthrie was so pro-Soviet that when Stalin’s Soviet Union concluded a pact with National Socialist Germany, Woody dutifully followed the party line.
they almost want to be angry at the other side, and it works. controversy sells. - fuck antifa! [crowd chanting] fuck antifa! [shouting, grunting] - [screaming] - talk is cheap. talk excites, and agitates, and inflames. and talk binds you to a personality and often a point of view. - despite commie-crats gnashing their teeth about it for - we ve now gone from partisan news to sort of hyper-partisan news. oan, breitbart. all these smaller and smaller silos where you get more and more of an insular political view. - you can go back decades and years to think that the role of news is simply to present x, y, and z, and let people make their own decisions. and that s fair, but that reflected a very different time in our country. - i m a big fan of the new york times, but i can also see when they re going off the rails. you know, at times, they become cheerleaders,
they re the ones that we saw heading up the stairs of the capitol building, in a stacked wedge formation. [people shouting] messaging and storytelling has the power to kind of disconnect our higher functions with decision-making and critical thinking. cognitive dissonance, if you will. - well, people like to get riled up now when they re consuming news and information. they almost want to be angry at the other side, and it works. controversy sells. - fuck antifa! [crowd chanting] fuck antifa! [shouting, grunting] - [screaming] - talk is cheap. talk excites, and agitates, and inflames. and talk binds you to a personality and often a point of view. - despite commie-crats gnashing their teeth about it for - we ve now gone from partisan news to sort of hyper-partisan news. oan, breitbart. all these smaller and smaller silos