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“Alternative facts” are bad enough, but we’re facing something far more serious: alternative worldviews in which up is down, future is past and all bets are off. Simply reacting to the most outrageous lies is not strategically smart enough. We need to work more seriously on a more comprehensive response — even as we need to become more sensitive to how far the inversions of reality have spread, and what ends they serve.
For example, the day before taxes were due, NPR reported on an IPSOS poll that found that a 44 percent plurality of Americans mistakenly believed that the richer pay more now than they did in 1980, when the top marginal income tax rate was 70 percent —compared to 39.6 percent today. Among Republicans, 52 percent believe this false picture, compared to just 28 percent who don’t.
Democrats, in contrast, were almost evenly split, 39 percent to 43 percent. This bizarre distortion helps explain why Republicans always push for tax cuts, and are doing so […]
The best line in the article: “Too much energy is still going into re-litigating the 2016 election — the Democratic primary as well as the general election. What’s needed instead is a reality-based effort to forge compelling narratives that guide us toward policies that can solve real problems.”
A lot of us look to the alt-media to get relief from the constant propaganda and spin from the mainstream, and I include both CNN and FOX in the mainstream group, with NYT and WaPo as nothing but shills for the deep state.
This is a nonsense claim that–tellingly–is never backed up by EXAMPLES. If you want to be taken seriously, and not–ironically–as a “shill” then give us some names of rightwing ‘alt-media’ that has a better overall track record of reporting in-depth, investigative, groundbreaking journalism that proves out to be true, regardless of the claims.
Granted, there are good sources out there for stories that do not get enough attention, but I have yet found one from the rightwing that is credible and not a victim of constant baseless fear-mongering and blatant provable falsehoods.
So, in the future, provide names of these elusive rightwing, credible alt-media; I have spent years looking and have yet to find ONE.