Why does the US corporate media only use the word "mandate" when the GOP is in charge?

[guillaumeb]

When Bush Jr. essentially stole the 2000 election, and did the same in 2004, he claimed a mandate for significant change in each instance.


When Obama legitimately and won massively in 2008, the US corporate media told us all that it was necessary for the Democrats to seek common ground with the GOP. There was no talk of a mandate even thought the Democrats controlled Congress and the Presidency.

In 2016, Trump only won the Electoral College, losing the popular vote, and even that EC vote was due to voter suppression and Russian interference. And we cannot forget that the same corporate media essentially created the myth of Trump, the brilliant businessman and master dealmaker.

And Trump claims a mandate.

So is a mandate something that can only be claimed by the GOP?

[Beartracks]

1. I bet most Republican voters never notice that.

It's very convenient to not notice such things.

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[guillaumeb]

3. And it normalizes the idea that the US is a conservative country. eom

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Repugs are considered the default party.

[guillaumeb]

6. And conservatism is considered to be the "adult" position.

Even when the foundation of the ideas is nonsense.


As in, supply side economics, an idea with no evidence to support it, but one that the GOP promotes constantly..

[pwb]

4. Because the billionaire owners tell the millionaire news talkers to say it.

Suppose to sound stronger i guess. Pukes are the fake tough guys.

[guillaumeb]

7. And the right wing narrative tells us that the US media entities are liberal,

when in fact they promote conservative ideas.

[jcmaine72]

5. The answer is right there in your title.

"US corporate media". They're all part of the same RW clique. I genuinely laugh whenever I hear a Con whine about the "librul media". We should be so lucky. These are little more than billionaires blowing kisses at each other and protecting their own common interests.

[guillaumeb]

8. The "liberal media" meme was sheer genius as strategy.

And it allows the uninformed voters to easily reject what they do not like to hear.

[jcmaine72]

9. Yep.

It has proven better than any Viennese shrink's swinging pocket watch ever could have at hypnotizing the rubes into believing something that is false is true, all while their pockets are being picked.

[guillaumeb]

10. And.......

it allowed for the creation of the myth of Trump, the successful businessman, when in fact, Trump is a failure at business.

[jcmaine72]

11. The cult of St. Ronnie was even worse.

If ever there was a grotesque example of media mythology making 101 it was the syrupy, nostalgia-based pulp fed to the American people during that asshole's eight years of rule. That's when we really dropped the soap as a nation and we've been shaky legged ever since.

[guillaumeb]

12. Agreed.

Reagan was a superficially polite racist who attacked non-whites and workers and helped bring about 2019 US.

Trump is a brutally open racist.

[UTUSN]

13. *Excellent* observation - also how they say "use his capital"

[guillaumeb]

14. True. GOP politicians have political capital.

Democratic politicians have a mandate to compromise with the GOP.