There has got to be better ways

[SHRED]

Thom Hartmann was discussing this today.

Link to tweet

[watoos]

1. The M$M is not our friend,

msnbc and cnn are into full blown right wing narratives.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's not that; it's that they look at it as just another kind of show business.

How can a wonky discussion about health care turn into a pitched battle that people will talk about? Deliberately pit the candidates against each other, that's how.

[jcgoldie]

3. exactly at CNN politics equals sports

And someone posted here an "attack tracker" from NBC that reminded me of the play by play app for the ballgame. This is the way a dipshit like Trump got elected by turning every issue into sensationalized bullshit. I kind of think Yang's campaign is a gimmick but he was right on point about that last night.

[Garrett78]

4. Well no shit. There's so much wrong with our system.

As Ezra Klein and Mayor Pete point out, we are in desperate need of major structural reform. And that certainly pertains to every aspect of our nomination/election process.

The US Senate, the electoral college, Citizens United, for-profit health care, for-profit prisons, for-profit wars, and on and on and on. It's all so fucked up. We're all living in a giant asylum. When you stop and think critically, you recognize the utter madness. And if you dwell on it, it drives you mad.