Trump's Packing His Bags, But Partisan Media Is Here to Stay

[rayg]

A real interesting article...

As leaders of the anti-Trump “resistance,” America’s major newspapers, magazines, network and liberal cable news outlets abandoned journalistic principles to become propaganda arms of the Democrat party and the activist left. They have cast aside their historic commitment to open inquiry and fairness to protect Democrats while portraying Donald Trump as a traitor and his supporters as white supremacists.

A free press is essential to the functioning of a democratic Republic. It is a key channel for the free exchange and scrutiny of ideas. As the mainstream media has abandoned this role while advancing some narratives, no matter their faults, and delegitimizing others, no matter their merits, it is not surprising that cancel culture and anti-conservative censorship are flourishing on social media. Intimidation, coercion and punishment have always been the instruments of choice to silence dissent and destroy freedom.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...ay_145018.html

[lyman]

telling part of that article

That violence, however, did not arise out of thin air. It follows at least a decade of sustained efforts by progressives to challenge election results through direct action – starting with the takeover of the Wisconsin statehouse in 2011 and the Moral Monday protests launched in North Carolina in 2013. Those angry but peaceful protests evolved into the Black Lives Matter and antifa-led insurrections that began last spring and have led to multiple deaths and billions of dollars in property damage.

The mainstream media and top Democrats downplayed that violence and celebrated the lawbreakers. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris encouraged her supporters to contribute to the bail funds for people arrested in connection with the arson and looting that ravaged Minneapolis.

[togor]

I know people who were at the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011. I never went myself, don't like meetings.

The law changes proposed in Act 10 cost them money. People aren't allowed to protest when money is at stake?

They didn't bring guns and threaten insurrection. They did sit in the capitol building and sing a lot of songs. The GOP legislators didn't like stepping through the sea of faces of people getting screwed by their acts, and they complained about it to the Capitol police chief--how come we have to see them? But it was lots of old folks, lefties, in the crowds. And union electricians and such.

In my opinion, Act 10 wasn't all bad. Some teachers' unions had become a problem in their own right. But in small districts, the teachers' unions were about the only organization with any sense of how to run a school (can't expect the locals on the board to know the nuts and bolts of that). So rural districts continue to struggle, things going from bad to worse.

The public employee's unions apparently were a contributor to Democratic candidates, which is what made them a target of the WI GOP in the first place.

Life went on after Act 10. But anyone who claims it was an example of wild liberal overreach isn't in command of the facts.

[Major Tom]

While teachers salaries are basically frozen or up to the whim of school boards, the fact is that school superintendants receive way above what is considered acceptable. Our 'super' receives $140,000 per year plus a car for transportation (?), free travel expenses to whatever educational seminare he deems necessary. This in a town of 22,000 population.

[Vern Humphrey]

While teachers salaries are basically frozen or up to the whim of school boards, the fact is that school superintendants receive way above what is considered acceptable. Our 'super' receives $140,000 per year plus a car for transportation (?), free travel expenses to whatever educational seminare he deems necessary. This in a town of 22,000 population.

And now you know why Johnnie can't read.