1/The biggest failure of both our politics & media is that most news analysis is kept on the surface, always dealing with symptom & rarely dealing with cause. It's always talking about the house yet rarely addresses the health of its foundation. In fact the foundation is rotting

May 24, 2020 · 11:04 PM UTC

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2/ If your democracy is under attack, your house is rotting. If your economy is unjust, your house is rotting. If your food and environmental policies literally cause people to be ill, your house is rotting. If your citizens are duped into not seeing this, your house is rotting.
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3/ But every problem comes bearing its own solution. It's in the midst of how bad all this is that the miracle is born. People are waking up. People are seeing the rot. People are asking themselves, "Why are we putting up with this?" And from that the necessary changes will come.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
They are part of the cause, so it makes perfect sense why they would focus on the symptom and deflect to another symptom. For Example: You have COVID. Symptoms: Cough, tiredness, fever, etc. Media: You are tired because you have a fever! Fight the fever!
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They are paid to do that. This isn’t a group of people who don’t do what their told. The ones that don’t work for independent media.
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Americans are face epistemological challenges daily to ascertain the difference between cause and effect. We are trained to think in terms of stasis rather than process and not to be able to tell.
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I'm sorry; I'm not voting for anyone at this point; unless and until someone directly invites and welcomes me doing so AND has a decent policy agenda. I'm tired of feeling constantly left out. "They don't want me, I don't want them"
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Replying to @marwilliamson @Sc14S
We’ve been building houses with concrete foundation for almost 100 years? You obviously did a lousy home inspection before you declared your candidacy?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I totally agree again Marianne. One would think there would be more analysis and discourse in this information age. Media is on 24 hours a day it is not like they do not have the time. I use a different analogy, everyone talks about this tree or that but just ignore the forest.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
well if we addressed the cause we'd have to address the fact joe biden couldn't exist as a presidential candidate in a country that remembers or learns anything from its mistakes
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Replying to @marwilliamson
John olivers entire show is basically "pointing out the problems caused by rampant neoliberlism without pointing out that neoliberalism is the core problem"
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Replying to @marwilliamson @laurieallee
Having worked in the news business As a freelancer, the job of any reporter Is to do just that-report. Analysis is fine. However , getting at the root causes of issues Is a job for historians and economists .
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Politics and media both suck!
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