Reality DOES have a liberal bias

[MrScorpio]

[Gothmog]

1. This is great

[liberalmike27]

30. AND

Why I use "Republi-con," or "RepubliCON" if you like, because to survive, Republicans have to con a certain number of voters into thinking they'll somehow be better off. There's the cheating too, but mostly it's the "con" that works for them. I'm racist like you. "I'm hateful to Immigrants, similar to your position." "I'm religious like you." "We're going to create jobs," failing to tell them they won't be IN America--and many others.

[kentuck]

2. And everything Rachel Maddow says is not...

....a liberal lie.

[kag]

3. Smartest woman on TV. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

4. How can she get away with saying all these insane things?

[TheVisitor]

12. Democrat Sponsors ... nt

[Jackpine Radical]

13. She's a secret agent of George Soros.

Gotta be.

[TheVisitor]

15. She's pretty badass...

I like her, but she kind of just focuses on one side doing wrong a bit too much for me. I think both parties are pretty corrupt at this point.

[calimary]

16. Oh, not this again... hey, both sides-both sides -

If both sides supposedly ARE the same, I will STILL side with the one that stays out of my gyno's office, stays out of my bedroom, doesn't try to keep me OR others from voting, one that accepts science as real and government as something that ISN'T just completely bad and unnecessary. I will side with those who don't hug their guns and Bibles first (and sometimes only) before stopping to think clearly or logically or objectively, and doesn't automatically assume everyone who isn't pale-skinned is somehow bad or there to be exploited, avoided, mistrusted, or shat upon.

Both sides are NOT the same.

[TheVisitor]

17. Wha?

I'm not saying they're the same, I'm saying they're both corrupt in their own ways. Neither side is perfect. I'm not emotionally invested into either party.

[calimary]

21. Fair enough. Didn't mean to get overbearing.

But then again I relish an opportunity to underscore the overriding point, just in general. ANY time I can remind about both parties NOT being alike, perhaps I can convince some wavering voter out there to go vote ANYWAY, and NOT throw up his/her hands and stay home on Election Day. It truly does make a difference which party one considers, holding one's nose or not.

[TheVisitor]

24. gotcha

I love voting. Definitely people do need to vote and really become educated on who they think is the best candidate with facts, I totally agree with you there! Voting should be mandatory, honestly. If someone doesn't want to choose they can just select 'no vote' or something, but everyone who is capable should have to show up.

[calimary]

32. That's the best idea yet. Voting should be mandatory.

[Doctor_J]

25. If you really want "the other side", there are 1200 radio stations you can tune to

24/7. Not a single one of those ever says anything positive about any democrat. So you can go there for your "balance". Idiot

[TheVisitor]

27. Obviously, you're just a troll... nt

[stopwastingmymoney]

20. This was her opening segment the day after the 2012 election

I still have it saved in my DVR, if you can find it to watch, it's great.

[Fred Sanders]

5. If there were media liberal bias all of these things would be true and the skeptics would not be

constantly invited onto national mass media broadcasts to spew their alternate world "viewpoints" in the accompaniment of unquestioning national media talking heads.

So hate propaganda laws are out, how about truth in advertising laws for political campaigns and restricted advertising windows only before national elections?

[Kingofalldems]

6. No!

[Marr]

7. It really is bizarre. I remember when the John Birch Society was really fringe, whacko

stuff. They lived in their own bubble, but it was a small bubble. Now, with Fox News and hate radio, that bubble is enormous. We have a huge segment of the country that is simply not living in reality.

[baldguy]

8. Um, can we *get* UN election observers to take over Texas?

Please?

[hvn_nbr_2]

9. Actually, reality doesn't have a liberal bias. Liberals have a reality bias. nt

[Aldo Leopold]

11. Brilliant rejoinder.

This should be a t-shirt or bumper sticker!

[malthaussen]

19. Hear, hear! n/t

[NightWatcher]

29. Exactly. I was just about to say Liberals have a firm grip on reality

Not watching Faux and getting worked into a frothy rage will do that to us.

[hifiguy]

10. Love it! K/R for TRUTH.

Rachel is great. Even Twilight Sparkle loves this.

[Helen Borg]

14. That is why they hate reality-based analyses.

[Veilex]

18. Say it loud, say it proud!

+1

[orleans]

22. if i was going to become politically minded again

this woman & her show would be the first thing i turn to

i loved watching her and her show

[Jamaal510]

23. Some of the stuff on the list

didn't used to be partisan, such as climate change and taxes. I SMH at how far off the wall the RW has gone in the past 30 or so years.

[IronLionZion]

26. I wish they would raise taxes

on capital gains at least, and simplify the deductions and tax code. And maybe a flatter corporate tax so that corporations can stop complaining about the high tax rates when they actually pay significantly less.

[7962]

31. I do not think unrealized cap gains should be taxed. But they are.

You have money in a stock that appreciates, you dont pay taxes on the gain until you sell. If you have money in a mutual fund, any capital gains are taxed even if you never sell any shares of the fund. I dont think thats right. Its punishing you for investing for your future. You may even end up having to sell to get the cash to pay the tax
I agree with your other points, but you wont find a lot of support for it on the Dem side. I havent seen the president present a plan for it. Regardless of its chances in a GOP house, it would show who is trying to accomplish something.
But I'm considered "fringe" on DU, because I also support a sales tax. We have too many people earning good money who pay little or no taxes because they earn cash wages. We need more people pulling the wagon. There arent enough "rich" people to fund everything.

[world wide wally]

28. I think that the problem is that for altogether too many people, it is easier to just let

Themselves be brainwashed by Fox News and pretend they live in a fantasyland where CO2 doesn't have any effect on the air, white people should always be in charge of things, and they are going to be rich someday.