The Clown Car is sucking all the oxygen from our Primary election "news"
This is my 'Feeling The Bern' Rant for Today. Yes, it's a little longish, but please bear with me.
GOP’s Clown Car Circus is sucking all the oxygen out of this Primary election cycle. It's getting difficult to breath in here. It seems that 99% of the M$M “political news” anymore, including much of msnbc’s, is breathless “analysis” of Trump’s most recent vacuous headline-grabbing brain-fart, along with obligatory “responses” from a few of the 15 other GOP clowns, 99% devoid of any public policy content whatsoever -- unless you consider calling all Mexicans rapists a ‘policy’. And this noise machine grinds on, day after day, after day, largely devoid of any mention of real issues, except for an occasional side-ways glance at the Democratic candidates — oh, that’s right, we have two party Primaries— which consists of conjuring up “reasons” why Sanders “can’t win”, or attacking Hillary on her alleged mis-use of emails.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders — unlike Trump of Hillary, or any other candidate — is pulling conspicuously huge numbers of voters in the tens of thousands, excited and eager to hear a serious candidate for our highest office discuss real issues that profoundly effect their lives and their family’s lives. And he’s even doing this in RED STATES as well. This phenomenal electoral anomaly called Sanders cannot long be ignore without becoming willfully ignorant of political history in the making. Nevertheless, M$M keeps straining to actively look away from Berniementum, like they wish Bernie would somehow magically go away. Yet, gratefully, we’ve seen no signs from Bernie that he’s going anywhere; no-where except to his next record crowd, as he keeps signing on new volunteers heading toward the Democratic debates, and then onward on the home stretch to election day.
Ignoring obvious political news in favor of the sensational is sometimes called “horse-race” political coverage, and it is that; but it’s also much more (or less) than that. When Bernie’s campaign is mentioned, he’s dismissed as the “left-wing fringe” candidate, and The Donald is smirkingly opined to the “Bernie Sanders of the Right Wing”; so Trump serves as a perfect foil to insinuate that Bernie’s remarkable campaign is must also be “out-of-touch with mainstream America” and/or “devoid of any serious public policy content”, without ever coming out and actually saying that. This works to some extent, only because Trump is the perfect buffoon, the perfect holographic clown for all seasons. No one seems to notice that both of these ugly insinuations are not only untrue, they are the exact opposite of the truth — they are damnable lies. To releave the cognitive dissonance it’s tempting to dismiss it all, “Oh well, it’s all a big show, I guess that’s politics” but then reality sets in again: it’s adroitly avoiding any serious policy discussion, while diminishing and/or deriding any candidate who dares to shed clear light on say, Wall Street’s grand robbery of the American Dream., or of the fact that our planet is on fire.
An additional bonus for the GOP is that Trump makes all the other GOP clowns start to look downright reasonable and stately by comparison. Jeb gets to be ‘disturbed’ about Trumps use of the word “Holocost” etc. The longer this goes on, the less voters know about anything remotely related to policy effecting their lives, or where candidates stand on real issues facing the nation: it’s all about Trump showing his ass, and/or what other candidates think about Trump showing his ass.
As if this isn’t bad enough, yet another travesty playing out here is that Trump is probably puling some disaffected low-information Republican voters into his orbit, who are “totally fed up” with their sorry-ass party, and rightfully so — who might otherwise be inclined to check out Bernie Sanders and change their registration to Democrat to vote for him. Oh well.
There. That’s my “Feeling the Bern” rant for the day. Carry on.
Go Bernie Go. 
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Keep the masses in the dark with one hand, while robbing them blind with the other.
I just wish they'd stop calling it "news. 
This is one of the many many reasons I'm so happy and delighted that Bernie
made the plunge, and is showing America what an honest "not for sale" Democrat looks and
sounds like. And it's a thing of beauty to see how Americans are showing up for him in return.
Go Bernie!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
