I actually think Chris is exactly right that the median voter thinks everyone is corrupt already. That is the main thing Republicans have been telling people for decades, and they've completely captured local media.
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Chris Hayes
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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we went to iraq over babies in incubators that didn't exist. we argued over whether it was wrong or not that bill clinton is a predatory creep, while we collapsed the ussr for profit and gutted our own safety net.
we entered afghanistan to
get bin laden
free the school girls
build democracy
we lied in the un about uranium and invaded iraq
we have cannibalized our own infrastructure
our first black president called civil rights protesters "thugs"
we blew up that pipeline to make money
we fund and collaborate with israel
it sounds to me like we made and released covid into china
i have to gesture to the existence of hunter biden
there's all of the shit we do to venezuela
our embargo of cuba is arguably a crime against humanity
It's clear to the most well informed of us that the GOP is LIGHT YEARS beyond the dems in corruption, but dems give the RW propaganda machine just enough fuel to make most ppl doubt it
So much brain poisoning and despite what you hear, run of the mill guys like me don’t control a vast media empire that can attack their deeply ingrained assumptions