My take away from this is not about the politics. It's about the ineptness of the media to realize what middle Americans are thinking and wanting from our government. Trump surprised the media with his following and now Sanders is doing the same thing and the media doesn't get it? Damn, how can they be so blind? Presently we have two factions of opposite politics out there and the media has been surprised to see both sides reveal their heads over the last decade?

I don't fault either political sect for being who they are. I might not agree with them but this is what America is all about. The biggest fault in this country right now is the media who professes to be the "equalizer" of politics in this country. Instead, they have become the voice of one sect of politics with facts and truth no longer being relevant and they wonder why no one respects them any longer. That is the definition of being obtuse.

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Posted by cokebottleag

I’m a Santos Republican

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Posted on 2/27/20 at 8:55 am to Homesick Tiger

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Damn, how can they be so blind?

Do you know how the average Azerbaijani thinks? You can get some clues from looking at pictures and videos, but you can't really ever know, because you don't live in Azerbaijan, you aren't one of them.

That's the establishment media's problem. They've never actually lived in middle America, so they don't have any reference points as to what they are thinking. Either that or they're exiles (think the ones we listened to before the Iraq war) who are 20 year removed from America, and pretend that they know what people think (they don't).

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Posted by LaLadyinTx

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Member since Nov 2018

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Posted on 2/27/20 at 11:43 am to Homesick Tiger

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My take away from this is not about the politics. It's about the ineptness of the media to realize what middle Americans are thinking and wanting from our government. Trump surprised the media with his following and now Sanders is doing the same thing and the media doesn't get it? Damn, how can they be so blind? Presently we have two factions of opposite politics out there and the media has been surprised to see both sides reveal their heads over the last decade?

The media and the normal politicians (not Bernie or Trump) are so enclosed in their bubble that it's hard for them to imagine that anyone has a thought different from their own. They are the absolute definition of confirmation bias! They don't like it at all when the populace thinks for themselves. The media and politicians all think they are smarter and know better what we need...the very definition of elite! They can't imagine that we actually have brains and think for ourselves!

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