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Trump voters won't read this but every "pundit" should. They won't either. The show must go on
This morning - RANT ON 
I read a DISGUSTING "analysis" of the voting here in my area (SE PA) in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Barely a day after the election, the "opinion pundits" proclaimed, in multiple articles, that Philadelphia (city) residents "didn't turn out for Biden" like past elections for Obama (2008, 2012) or Clinton (2016). This was when they were still counting votes and it wouldn't be until 2 weeks later when the final tally was "certified" by the city's Board of Commissioners.
And once those final votes were tallied, not only did the votes for Biden surpass that for Clinton (586K), but also surpassed that from both Obama elections (596K & 589K), the highest of which was exceeded by nearly 10,000 votes - in the middle of a pandemic, with a still-reduced number of polling locations, a new type of ballot - the "no-excuse absentee" ballot, with most locations around the state, including here deploying still-new voting machines and/or processes (that were brand new to the only-vote-every-four-years crowd), AND with USPS knee-capping the ballot deliveries (both to and from voters).
Yet today, rather than acknowledge that yeah, they missed the mark and "Good Job Philly!", the fucking assholes pivot to "well Trump raised his numbers in Philadelphia". And THEN they go on to pivot even further to note that (and I am sorry to say this although I have said it over and over and over and no offense to faithful DU voters) "the suburbs", where people continually SAT HOME FOR YEARS and didn't bother to vote, let alone register, and instead pointed to the city demanding that WE carry their fucking load, ALSO "raised their voter turnout" finally (which is GOOD!). But therefore, that meant that Philadelphia's "slice of the electorate" was "less" and thus a failure. 
THAT is moving the fucking goal posts and is yellow journalism at its finest, and they took what was an extraordinary effort by a beleaguered city, specifically targeted by the maniac-in-chief in the WH, and summarily dismissed us just like that.
For years they ignored that the suburbanites were "sitting home not voting" and then as soon as they do, they embrace them and of course discard the n****r-filled gang city as they always do. 
Meanwhile, as noted in the OP article, the gushing over the increases in and praise for the "Trump voter", proliferates throughout the entirety of their lengthy and obtuse data narrative, which obfuscates the true complex dynamics of this election.
This is the same paper that was forced to have an editor "resign" for a headline that read "Buildings Matter, Too".
The staff of color had protested against the paper when that happened -
Link to tweet
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@brandontrevion
Today, I’m joining my colleagues of color at the @PhillyInquirer and calling in sick and tired.
Things need to change. We call on The Inquirer to do better. To be better.
Here is the open letter we sent our newsroom leadership yesterday:
http://bit.ly/3eMUnjy
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and included what is an excellent AND elegant summary of how many of us feel about "news" coverage in general -
These media outlets have been drenched in centuries' worth of tired, old stereotypes, that seep through the very fabric of their being, in every pore and fiber, so they feel they "already know" who these ("Biden" ) voters "are", and thus there is no need to go any further because their paternalism will save the day by merely reporting on "the stereotype" rather than "the reality".
RANT OFF -
If I ever saw a rant worthy of it's own OP on DU, this is it, BRDS.
Golly. 
I am just sick of it. I don't know what it is about this city - the place where the founding documents of this nation were drafted - and why there is this overlay of abject hate and resentment about it. It permeates across the media and gets projected and magnified around the country, where we have basically been distilled down into a nonsensical handful of stereotypes about "cheese steaks", "throwing snowballs at Santa" and "Rocky", that get repeated over and over and over.
I'll never forget going to lunch near where I worked downtown (which was mere blocks from Independence Hall) and hearing one of the kids from some tourist family, asking his mom about where the Constitution was created and her response was "Boston".
Could be that the purveyors of propaganda don't like the intent of the documents produced here hundreds of years ago, so they are going to go about doing everything in their power to diminish this place in the eyes of the nation.
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When I realized everything I had ever learned from grade school on about the first Thanksgiving was pure fiction and fantasy.
The story promulgated for hundreds of years is a confabulation of historical facts drawn from the Jamestown Colony, Mayflower, nonsense, mythology, fantasy, and wishful thinking.
Who did this? The blue-bloods of the DAR or Society of Mayflower Descendants? 
I set about learning the real truth and other than the official story the real story is nowhere to be found. I had to piece it together myself. Much as you've done about about the real city of our nation's birth.
It's like the Liberty Bell and the events of Independence Hall have been chiseled from the consciousness of American history. Now, even Gettysburg is being distorted. I saw the same thing when I visited NASA some years ago. There was no context.
I don't know if it's deliberate or if it's a disregard of the teaching of history only to have it repeated.
The whole teabagger movement, with Koch money and Newt Gingrich writing the playbook, kicked off the final phase of indoctrination that would reshape the political landscape and its discourse. The GOP in this state used to be what I called "the annoying Republicans". Now they decided to drink a whole pitcher of loon koolaid.
Gone were the days of the Baldwin - Buckley debates to be replaced by what is in essence "Celebrity Deathmatch", and this has been amplified by the media that is unfortunately doing it for "ratings", "eyeballs", and "page clicks". And trying to cut through that to get some factual info out there about what has gone on in this nation's past, which can help make this a better place in the future by encouraging and embracing all types of perspectives when it comes to innovation, instead becomes a perilous journey through a landmine of more falsehoods because opening up the viewpoints is being "politically correct" and "encourages identity politics".
Now it's my turn to
On my review of the post of mine above yours, I had "Liberty Hall" instead of "Independence Hall".
My only defense is I was entering fast using auto-complete.
Auto-complete is ruining our democracy!
Sorry.
There have been various names for where they eventually located it. It is currently in the "Liberty Bell Center" that was built after they moved it from the plexiglass "Liberty Bell Pavilion", where it had been moved to at midnight New Years eve 1976 in the sleet, after which it cracked, requiring a $90,000 repair (which I remember well - Rizzo was mayor and they were able to get metal from the original British foundry to do the repair 
).
It had been moved to that when it was taken out of Independence Hall because there was not enough room for tourists to get in there to see it, along with too much touching of it, so it would be easier to rope off in its own building.
Original (in Independence Hall) -
In the plexiglass thing (old Liberty Bell Pavilion) -
Now ("new" Liberty Bell Center opened in 2003) -
(reminds me of Rmoney 
) that means you have a number of people in the "53%" who DID finally wake up and come out, and that is actually what moved the needle.
And I will NOT say that nothing has changed - even in the past year. There is actually a whole tier of "changes" that were "dismissed" by some as being "meaningful" but that represented the very symbols of power, hate, and division - and that was all those damn Confederate statues and monuments dotted around the country, as well as the symbols (statues and monuments) of other oppressors outside of the south, that basically represented to a good-sized chunk of "Biden voters", the fact that "THEY" (the commemorated) were "still in charge and venerated", and would continue to be "calling the shots".
I think the big issue that I see you are actually highlighting, is what is considered "societal norms". We talk about "the bar being so low" and the types of behavior that had not only been considered "uncouth", but that was also detrimental to being able to even have an intelligent conversation, and that type of discourse has been "normalized" by the media.
It took them 3 years to start calling a "lie a lie" and even when they did, they scrambled around to find or manufacture some kind of "low bar" equivalence "by the other side" for "balance".
“The Warmth of Other Suns” - Isabel Wilkerson
“The Piano Lesson,” - August Wilson
“Fences" - August Wilson
“How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
“Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” - Jacob Soboroff
“Rage” - Bob Woodward
“Fear” - Bob Woodward
“Too Much and Never Enough - Mary L. Trump,
“I, too, am America” - Langston Hughes.
that included some films, plays, & political television comedy shows.
But if you want to get real, he could have included Miles in there too.
It's never gotten its proper attention in American history, because historians have struggled about their priorities for centuries. A good book about that problem is Jill Lepore's This America: The Case for the Nation. I consider Lepore the nation's preeminent historian. She's offered to laypersons a really clear look at problems of perspective that historians have, and how America can now be an adult, complicated story of 'warts and all.'
The reality of corporate interests pandering to the basest of human goals is why so many people sell out American governance for profit, whether it was to become wealthy on the backs of enslaved humans or by staking claims to all mineral rights before any humans bought surveyed land.
One book I thought read like a page turner was The Island At The Center Of The World by Russell Shorto. I was fascinated to learn so much about how the people of that island -- the Dutch from Amsterdam -- were the first to bring great values from their previous city to become the heart of what this nation has been known for -- tolerance, and separation of church and state.
Thanks for your post.
80 Million Voters who Voted in Joe Biden & Kamala Harris!
TY & Eugene Robinson!
And BRDS needs to take that rant to The Greatest page! 
So sick and tired of the double standards in our media! 