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[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm glad to see people wake up to this, but it's frustratingly late. It was clear that the media establishment had declared themselves the arbiters of political acceptability in 2012. I know this because I got into an argument with the founder of Business Insider that year about Ron Paul. He was declared "unelectable" and following that decision, his campaign was sidelined shamelessly. 2016 we saw what happened to Bernie Sanders. The mainstream Democratic cadre is remarkably willing to allow this group of self-declared kingmakers incredible power over what is supposed to be the power of the citizenry. They will wake up, of course, only when the press declares their candidate off limits. By that point, they are going to shocked at the result. Trump vs. Biden is just the warmup...