All true and frequently inspiring. Less inspiring is that half of Americans think the economy is terrible and Biden is incompetent, or worse. We’re not going to fix the nauseating stench of the Republican propaganda machine as it pumps lies and more lies. That leaves us with the media, who reinforce Republican propaganda. Who can fix the…
All true and frequently inspiring. Less inspiring is that half of Americans think the economy is terrible and Biden is incompetent, or worse. We’re not going to fix the nauseating stench of the Republican propaganda machine as it pumps lies and more lies. That leaves us with the media, who reinforce Republican propaganda. Who can fix the media? If we don’t have an answer, we would be deluded if we don’t think Trump 2024 is a distinct possibility.
I don’t “like” this. In fact I hate it. The truth is, in part, that the media have also been subject to being bought by large players with deep pockets. Numerous newspapers and other news outlets have gone out of business in many markets. “Who can fix the media,” you ask. I ask “What can fix the media?”
What can fix it? Antitrust laws at one time prevented people from owning more than one or two outlets in an area such as two stations from the 2 major networks like ABC, CBS, NBC. Murdoch got that thrown out. Like car dealerships could not own a competitor dealership. All this antitrust was designed for one thing...to move money upward and suppresss workers ability to push back against abuse.
Rickey , while regular citizens were working to pay their bills and raise families, we took our eyes off those who were voted into offices where they could use their votes to put money into their pockets and/or into the pockets of people who helped to elect them.
Now, thanks to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, we have had the mask lifted and it's not a pretty scene. But also thanks to President Biden and his excellent team, we are seeing better actions being taken that are already helping. We are "Building Back Better!"
Our relationships with world leaders are stronger. Those leaders opposing freedom also know where we stand. President Biden is not a coward nor a war monger. As the saying goes,"Freedom is not free!"
We MUST keep President Biden and his advisers in office for the betterment of our country and to support freedom worldwide!
I don't "like" this but what you say is true. The concentration of huge sums of money in the bank accounts of a relatively small number of people is behind many of our problems. Their ability to wield their money and influence out of the sight of the pubic is another huge problem.
In fact, what HCR praises about President Biden's increasing competition is not true insofar as media goes. The ownership of our remaining newspapers and television stations is consolidating, not becoming more diverse and localized. 'What can fix the media?', you ask. The answer is enforcing existing anti-trust legislation and updating it. (And this is also true of agriculture, where the small and middle-sized farmers are disappearing.)
That’s a very good question, especially when supposedly center-left media like the New York Times and Washington Post drift ever more rightward, and that includes their journalists who don’t have a clue that that’s what they’re doing. Indeed, what can fix that? Alas, you may be right. Nothing can fix it.
Damn, I've done it again - reduced the window to check something and couldn't find it again. What I said was that I unsubscribed WaPo because I could stand their righters (pun intended), then thought I'd give them another chance, recognising their both-sides policy. We all know who to avoid if we don't want to be sick, plus you do get Jennifer Rubin and Alexandra Petri. The worst are the commenters, who don't seem to be monitored in any way. However: Glenn Kessler dominated page 1 (today, I think) with his fact-check of T Tuberville's campaign pledge to donate all his earnings to the Veterans. That really unleashed the commenters - in the desired way. Never seen so many discourteous variants on a surname.
Part of the problem has to do with who owns the newspapers, how much editorial control they choose to exercise and how much money they’re willing to invest (or lose) in this enterprise. Not alienating actual and potential advertisers becomes a priority. Newsroom staffing gets cut back. Rigorous copy editing is seen as an unaffordable luxury.
It's all CBS president said it well back in 2016 that Donald Trump was not good for the country but he sure is good for our bottom line. Or sometime like that. The Fairness Doctrine was eliminated back some 20 years ago and anti trust laws still on the books were not enforced and still aren't. But Biden is stepping up.
Is it possible for people to acknowledge the difference between fact and opinion? And that one’s perspective (right or left or empathetic or racist) doesn’t change the facts. I thought media channels (TV, newspapers) used to differentiate between fact and opinion but not anymore.
Go to the gym and watch CNN and Fox at the same time side by side. The same news story has two different spins.
It would seem to me that if one is going to use the word “news” in a public facing brand or title, then there should be certain mandatory expectations of actual journalism. Balanced, truthful, objective. We can discuss and decide on our own how we feel about a topic.
It probably is illegal. I'm not a lawyer but I bet there are people who are reading this who would know. Let's see — "tangle with Murdoch, who owns both newspapers and television stations in major cities?" I wonder what would occur to him as a way to retaliate???
Robert, so true. How many times in the past year, while reporting on great jobs numbers, have the mainstream media said “staving off a recession” as if it’s inevitable that a recession is all but inevitable with this president. I’m fed up with this “balanced” clickbait.
It is hardly 'Breaking News' Mary, but today, LIVE, Biden s Team (this time the Federal Reserve Board) has implemented a NEW payment system trademarked as "FedNow". Up (digitally lubticated) & Running. 👍
My view is that we are heading into risky times, partly because of the poorly-timed strikes in Hollywood. The news media has blurred the lines into entertainment, and now Americans are left with the humorless shock jocks on the right and left, who regularly tell their audiences that things suck.
Of course, when many Americans are fed a diet of “things suck”, some will act on the suggestion and vote for change even if it’s against their best interest. Votes are almost always cast irrationally.
We can fix it, though, by boycotting crap media even when it supports your view, and challenging the social media amplifiers of their negative messages with an emotional response. If someone in your circle posts a “Biden sucks” article, take time to post something positive and uplifting (ideally personal) in response to show that there are really two sides, and only one is angry. You will get little direct satisfaction because anger begets anger, but for the persuadable, you’ve provided a rationalization of their vote.
Let me amend this with a bit more affirmative action (pun intended): Instead of "boycotting crap media even when it supports your view" let me recommend "boycotting crap media _that_ supports your view." That's harder, of course, because we all like to feel part of a tribe. But our tribe must be "Americans", not red or blue or even purple.
The media is certainly corrupted by profit, look at the nonstop breathless coverage of tfg and whatever he does. They made him.
Coverage punctuated by ads for things we cannot buy. Ever ask yourself why we see drug ads? Stuff we can’t buy? It’s not so we make up illnesses they’ll fix and run to the doctor for a prescription( who can afford that?). My favorite ones are the carrot ads for men. A drug for that, when women can get meds for pregnancy termination.
These ads are to bribe the media not to go after what is a very deceitful and corrupted industry at its root, and especially in America where the taxpayers subsidize their invention and testing, and pharma reaps enormous profit.
I’ll give another example. I am suffering from a bad case of dry eye; received RX from ophthalmologist for Xiidra. That cost over $800 ...at Walmart! I got a second RX from optometrist for Restaesis (sp?) that cost over $600! Obviously, I did not fill either one. Who could? Yet I have seen both advertised on TV making it sound like just run to local pharmacy and pick up. Medicare has been very good for us, but not for allowing us to receive these outlandishly ridiculous priced drugs.
I have dry eyes, too. At my ophthalmologist's recommendation, I buy the Rite Aid version of artificial tears and use it about three times a day. More if I've been staring at the computer or TV. I'm doing fine. Costco, and probably Walmart, sell the brand names at a good price, too. Those prescription versions are a ripoff.
Yes, I use OTC drops too, but the most important recommendation by both doctors was to use only “Preservative Free” ones. I use PF Systane. The best prices have been at Walmart or Amazon. I’m supposed to use four times a day, but rarely get that fourth one in.
Yes, Robert, the GOP and the corporate news spread the lies to those they think, and they are likely correct, to the poor and less-educated in this country. If the Democratic party wants to win in 2024, they need to spread the truth to the same people and stop thinking they can't reach the hearts and minds of those people. Newly elected Senator John Fetterman (D, PA) won by using his message of going to every county and speaking to folks there, instead of doing what so many of the Democratic elite have usually done, which is to just go to the safe states where the money is. Bishop William Barber, co-founder of the new Poor Peoples Campaign has said "If you want to be successful, you must go to the hollers and the hoods."
In deed. Today the news media once again splashed DJT's ugly countenance across the screen accompanied with the number of trials pending before the elections. It amounts to free advertising for the MAGAs. Something that helped him in his first run for office. Why can't they give equal time to Biden's accomplishments in all fairness?
“ the media “ talk about monopoly and eating up the little guy. How many of us still have a daily local newspaper in our town. I grew up in the Scranton,Pa. We had both The Scranton Tribune And The Scranton Times. Both were thick and had not only local news and opinions but also syndicated columns And comics aka “funnies”. And my small town of Carbondale ( as mentioned in the sitcom The Office) also had two competing weekly papers. And come the weekend my parents,neither of whom had a high school education , got two New York newspapers. They were not afraid of different and controversial opinions. And today we have jerks with degrees from Harvard and Yale controlling our country.
An awful lot of people know the economy is terrible because they just look around them, unlike comfortable liberals who don't live among common working people.
In 2005, when I moved here, my town's downtown (pop ~40k) had several vacant buildings. This continued until about 2 years ago. Now there are no vacant buildings. I do a lot of traveling in my area for the work I do. this is true of all the towns and cities here. No vacant buildings. New small businesses everywhere.
Richard Burrill, I "live" in Chattanooga, on the Tennessee/Georgia border. My congressional district is Republican and is surrounded on all sides by Republican districts.
However, most of the residents in the housing unit where I currently find myself are Black, as are most of the residents in the gritty surrounding neighborhood.
Around here, there hasn't been much of a "Biden recovery," except for a bounce off the bottom of the covid crisis.
Just now I've been driving my 18-wheeler through Helena, Georgia. Approaching from the west, along the highway that turns into MLK, Jr. Blvd., there is a profusion of vacant business buildings. There is also a smattering of empty storefronts along the main drag downtown. I did notice a new Dollar General and a new Dollar Tree, so things are looking up?
The Troll is on the LFAA ''Admins' target Board for Platform hygiene. Trolls have no Platform "memory" because they are not in a dialogue. Just YESTERDAY a community member posted an ANNE APPLEBAUM piece on the truthful conditions in Tennessee whose democratic system has been badly damaged. Misinformation & propaganda is a form of Platform disruption. Such that is not tolerated by this defined " Reader". Reported.
That’s complete BS. I’ve worked all my life at low-to medium-echelon jobs and I’m about as far left as you can get. Always have been. Same goes for most of my friends and colleagues. Maybe you’re confusing “liberal” with “neoliberal”.
I’m sorry John, it’s early in the morning for me. The economy is something that’s people complain about because going to the grocery store is a slap in the face to price gouging and greed every day.
I have no idea what “comfortable liberals” have to do with anything especially living among common working people. That may be your opinion but dare say it is just emotionally charged language without facts.
He's a troll. He used to copy/paste his long diatribes about a dozen times and if anyone called him out on it, he'd resort to juvenile name calling. I liken him to the heavy breathers on the landline telephones years ago. Get their jollies out of working people up. Many regular commenters reported him and he disappeared for a day or two, now is back and limits his comments to copy/paste once or twice.
As you can see by this thread, he calls me (and others, frequently) a holocaust denier. Whatever. Usually he calls us all Thugs . (LOL)
You go onto the three dots next to the reply button. It will bring up a form to report the person. I have been amused that to get around being really insulting, he will link some other inane retort he previously posted. At least the first couple of times, he did that. I don't bother anymore.
For a real LOL, read his description of himself! I've conversed with others on the forum who had the same opinion after reading it, but I'll let you judge for yourself.
I’m a common working person working with and around common people who have been benefiting greatly by the moves both Obama & Biden have made and are making. We are all liberal Democrats helping one another. We’re appalled at the backward trend Republicans are taking and will do whatever it takes to get our government back to being By The People, For The People. Most voters aren’t ‘elite’! And thank God, most voters aren’t Republican!
All true and frequently inspiring. Less inspiring is that half of Americans think the economy is terrible and Biden is incompetent, or worse. We’re not going to fix the nauseating stench of the Republican propaganda machine as it pumps lies and more lies. That leaves us with the media, who reinforce Republican propaganda. Who can fix the media? If we don’t have an answer, we would be deluded if we don’t think Trump 2024 is a distinct possibility.
I don’t “like” this. In fact I hate it. The truth is, in part, that the media have also been subject to being bought by large players with deep pockets. Numerous newspapers and other news outlets have gone out of business in many markets. “Who can fix the media,” you ask. I ask “What can fix the media?”
What can fix it? Antitrust laws at one time prevented people from owning more than one or two outlets in an area such as two stations from the 2 major networks like ABC, CBS, NBC. Murdoch got that thrown out. Like car dealerships could not own a competitor dealership. All this antitrust was designed for one thing...to move money upward and suppresss workers ability to push back against abuse.
Rickey , while regular citizens were working to pay their bills and raise families, we took our eyes off those who were voted into offices where they could use their votes to put money into their pockets and/or into the pockets of people who helped to elect them.
Now, thanks to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, we have had the mask lifted and it's not a pretty scene. But also thanks to President Biden and his excellent team, we are seeing better actions being taken that are already helping. We are "Building Back Better!"
Our relationships with world leaders are stronger. Those leaders opposing freedom also know where we stand. President Biden is not a coward nor a war monger. As the saying goes,"Freedom is not free!"
We MUST keep President Biden and his advisers in office for the betterment of our country and to support freedom worldwide!
FREEDOM ! is NOT FREE ! ASK ANY VETERAN, Who was BLESSED, to Return HOME ! ( GO ! , Blue ! )
Well said.
I don't "like" this but what you say is true. The concentration of huge sums of money in the bank accounts of a relatively small number of people is behind many of our problems. Their ability to wield their money and influence out of the sight of the pubic is another huge problem.
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
-SCOTUS Justice Louis Brandeis
We could euphemize this as "capitalist democracy", one of the worst influences in American politics in the past decade+
In fact, what HCR praises about President Biden's increasing competition is not true insofar as media goes. The ownership of our remaining newspapers and television stations is consolidating, not becoming more diverse and localized. 'What can fix the media?', you ask. The answer is enforcing existing anti-trust legislation and updating it. (And this is also true of agriculture, where the small and middle-sized farmers are disappearing.)
That’s a very good question, especially when supposedly center-left media like the New York Times and Washington Post drift ever more rightward, and that includes their journalists who don’t have a clue that that’s what they’re doing. Indeed, what can fix that? Alas, you may be right. Nothing can fix it.
Damn, I've done it again - reduced the window to check something and couldn't find it again. What I said was that I unsubscribed WaPo because I could stand their righters (pun intended), then thought I'd give them another chance, recognising their both-sides policy. We all know who to avoid if we don't want to be sick, plus you do get Jennifer Rubin and Alexandra Petri. The worst are the commenters, who don't seem to be monitored in any way. However: Glenn Kessler dominated page 1 (today, I think) with his fact-check of T Tuberville's campaign pledge to donate all his earnings to the Veterans. That really unleashed the commenters - in the desired way. Never seen so many discourteous variants on a surname.
Part of the problem has to do with who owns the newspapers, how much editorial control they choose to exercise and how much money they’re willing to invest (or lose) in this enterprise. Not alienating actual and potential advertisers becomes a priority. Newsroom staffing gets cut back. Rigorous copy editing is seen as an unaffordable luxury.
It's all CBS president said it well back in 2016 that Donald Trump was not good for the country but he sure is good for our bottom line. Or sometime like that. The Fairness Doctrine was eliminated back some 20 years ago and anti trust laws still on the books were not enforced and still aren't. But Biden is stepping up.
Is it possible for people to acknowledge the difference between fact and opinion? And that one’s perspective (right or left or empathetic or racist) doesn’t change the facts. I thought media channels (TV, newspapers) used to differentiate between fact and opinion but not anymore.
Go to the gym and watch CNN and Fox at the same time side by side. The same news story has two different spins.
Terese, Biden could start with the Murdoch empire that owns both newspapers and television stations is major cities. I thought that was illegal.
I was happy to read earlier this week that Murdock is being sued multiple times. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy...
but, but, but our legal system is so damn slow for the big guy and might be years that they come to trial. You and I would already be in jail.
It would seem to me that if one is going to use the word “news” in a public facing brand or title, then there should be certain mandatory expectations of actual journalism. Balanced, truthful, objective. We can discuss and decide on our own how we feel about a topic.
It probably is illegal. I'm not a lawyer but I bet there are people who are reading this who would know. Let's see — "tangle with Murdoch, who owns both newspapers and television stations in major cities?" I wonder what would occur to him as a way to retaliate???
Looking at the number of people who subscribe to Substack, I think we’re all doing a small bit to fix the media. That’s encouraging.
Robert, so true. How many times in the past year, while reporting on great jobs numbers, have the mainstream media said “staving off a recession” as if it’s inevitable that a recession is all but inevitable with this president. I’m fed up with this “balanced” clickbait.
It is hardly 'Breaking News' Mary, but today, LIVE, Biden s Team (this time the Federal Reserve Board) has implemented a NEW payment system trademarked as "FedNow". Up (digitally lubticated) & Running. 👍
My view is that we are heading into risky times, partly because of the poorly-timed strikes in Hollywood. The news media has blurred the lines into entertainment, and now Americans are left with the humorless shock jocks on the right and left, who regularly tell their audiences that things suck.
Of course, when many Americans are fed a diet of “things suck”, some will act on the suggestion and vote for change even if it’s against their best interest. Votes are almost always cast irrationally.
We can fix it, though, by boycotting crap media even when it supports your view, and challenging the social media amplifiers of their negative messages with an emotional response. If someone in your circle posts a “Biden sucks” article, take time to post something positive and uplifting (ideally personal) in response to show that there are really two sides, and only one is angry. You will get little direct satisfaction because anger begets anger, but for the persuadable, you’ve provided a rationalization of their vote.
Let me amend this with a bit more affirmative action (pun intended): Instead of "boycotting crap media even when it supports your view" let me recommend "boycotting crap media _that_ supports your view." That's harder, of course, because we all like to feel part of a tribe. But our tribe must be "Americans", not red or blue or even purple.
The media is certainly corrupted by profit, look at the nonstop breathless coverage of tfg and whatever he does. They made him.
Coverage punctuated by ads for things we cannot buy. Ever ask yourself why we see drug ads? Stuff we can’t buy? It’s not so we make up illnesses they’ll fix and run to the doctor for a prescription( who can afford that?). My favorite ones are the carrot ads for men. A drug for that, when women can get meds for pregnancy termination.
These ads are to bribe the media not to go after what is a very deceitful and corrupted industry at its root, and especially in America where the taxpayers subsidize their invention and testing, and pharma reaps enormous profit.
I’ll give another example. I am suffering from a bad case of dry eye; received RX from ophthalmologist for Xiidra. That cost over $800 ...at Walmart! I got a second RX from optometrist for Restaesis (sp?) that cost over $600! Obviously, I did not fill either one. Who could? Yet I have seen both advertised on TV making it sound like just run to local pharmacy and pick up. Medicare has been very good for us, but not for allowing us to receive these outlandishly ridiculous priced drugs.
I have dry eyes, too. At my ophthalmologist's recommendation, I buy the Rite Aid version of artificial tears and use it about three times a day. More if I've been staring at the computer or TV. I'm doing fine. Costco, and probably Walmart, sell the brand names at a good price, too. Those prescription versions are a ripoff.
Yes, I use OTC drops too, but the most important recommendation by both doctors was to use only “Preservative Free” ones. I use PF Systane. The best prices have been at Walmart or Amazon. I’m supposed to use four times a day, but rarely get that fourth one in.
Yes, Robert, the GOP and the corporate news spread the lies to those they think, and they are likely correct, to the poor and less-educated in this country. If the Democratic party wants to win in 2024, they need to spread the truth to the same people and stop thinking they can't reach the hearts and minds of those people. Newly elected Senator John Fetterman (D, PA) won by using his message of going to every county and speaking to folks there, instead of doing what so many of the Democratic elite have usually done, which is to just go to the safe states where the money is. Bishop William Barber, co-founder of the new Poor Peoples Campaign has said "If you want to be successful, you must go to the hollers and the hoods."
In deed. Today the news media once again splashed DJT's ugly countenance across the screen accompanied with the number of trials pending before the elections. It amounts to free advertising for the MAGAs. Something that helped him in his first run for office. Why can't they give equal time to Biden's accomplishments in all fairness?
Philip Roth wrote this dystopian novel, "The Plot Against America," which Trump 2024 would bring.
“ the media “ talk about monopoly and eating up the little guy. How many of us still have a daily local newspaper in our town. I grew up in the Scranton,Pa. We had both The Scranton Tribune And The Scranton Times. Both were thick and had not only local news and opinions but also syndicated columns And comics aka “funnies”. And my small town of Carbondale ( as mentioned in the sitcom The Office) also had two competing weekly papers. And come the weekend my parents,neither of whom had a high school education , got two New York newspapers. They were not afraid of different and controversial opinions. And today we have jerks with degrees from Harvard and Yale controlling our country.
An awful lot of people know the economy is terrible because they just look around them, unlike comfortable liberals who don't live among common working people.
In 2005, when I moved here, my town's downtown (pop ~40k) had several vacant buildings. This continued until about 2 years ago. Now there are no vacant buildings. I do a lot of traveling in my area for the work I do. this is true of all the towns and cities here. No vacant buildings. New small businesses everywhere.
Steve, a boots on the ground observation adding witness to results
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-19-2023/comment/21067544
I also do a lot of traveling, throughout the southeast. Plenty of vacant buildings downtown in many little cities throughout Tennessee and Georgia.
In general, the feeling is stressed, not at all good times.
But so many in TN and GA say "When President Trump wins again, he'll save us because he knows what's good for us." Yeah, right.
Richard Burrill, I "live" in Chattanooga, on the Tennessee/Georgia border. My congressional district is Republican and is surrounded on all sides by Republican districts.
However, most of the residents in the housing unit where I currently find myself are Black, as are most of the residents in the gritty surrounding neighborhood.
Around here, there hasn't been much of a "Biden recovery," except for a bounce off the bottom of the covid crisis.
Can’t judge the economy by searching out some of the worst parts of our country & drawing a conclusion from that! Really?!
Just now I've been driving my 18-wheeler through Helena, Georgia. Approaching from the west, along the highway that turns into MLK, Jr. Blvd., there is a profusion of vacant business buildings. There is also a smattering of empty storefronts along the main drag downtown. I did notice a new Dollar General and a new Dollar Tree, so things are looking up?
Where are you?
The Troll is on the LFAA ''Admins' target Board for Platform hygiene. Trolls have no Platform "memory" because they are not in a dialogue. Just YESTERDAY a community member posted an ANNE APPLEBAUM piece on the truthful conditions in Tennessee whose democratic system has been badly damaged. Misinformation & propaganda is a form of Platform disruption. Such that is not tolerated by this defined " Reader". Reported.
Bryan Sean McCown,
That is just hateful.
That’s complete BS. I’ve worked all my life at low-to medium-echelon jobs and I’m about as far left as you can get. Always have been. Same goes for most of my friends and colleagues. Maybe you’re confusing “liberal” with “neoliberal”.
Remember who you're replying to! This is built-in for him.
This reply to Carolyn also needs to go to you:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-19-2023/comment/21067727
Carolyn Paul, I suspect there is a significant difference betwern "low-to medium-echelon jobs" and "blue collar."
Having done both, I respectfully disagree.
Respectful disagreement is a step up from your earlier "complete BS."
I’m sorry John, it’s early in the morning for me. The economy is something that’s people complain about because going to the grocery store is a slap in the face to price gouging and greed every day.
I have no idea what “comfortable liberals” have to do with anything especially living among common working people. That may be your opinion but dare say it is just emotionally charged language without facts.
He's a troll. He used to copy/paste his long diatribes about a dozen times and if anyone called him out on it, he'd resort to juvenile name calling. I liken him to the heavy breathers on the landline telephones years ago. Get their jollies out of working people up. Many regular commenters reported him and he disappeared for a day or two, now is back and limits his comments to copy/paste once or twice.
I either ignore him or I just report him.
Who to or How do we ‘Report’ anyone?
As you can see by this thread, he calls me (and others, frequently) a holocaust denier. Whatever. Usually he calls us all Thugs . (LOL)
You go onto the three dots next to the reply button. It will bring up a form to report the person. I have been amused that to get around being really insulting, he will link some other inane retort he previously posted. At least the first couple of times, he did that. I don't bother anymore.
For a real LOL, read his description of himself! I've conversed with others on the forum who had the same opinion after reading it, but I'll let you judge for yourself.
If you check, you will find my work that demolishes the scholarship of the former leading expert Michael Zuckert.
The hateful I.M.F. Holocaust denier doesn't have her facts straight, as usual.
Christine,
Here's the beginning of a reply to what you wrote:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-19-2023/comment/21067544
I’m a common working person working with and around common people who have been benefiting greatly by the moves both Obama & Biden have made and are making. We are all liberal Democrats helping one another. We’re appalled at the backward trend Republicans are taking and will do whatever it takes to get our government back to being By The People, For The People. Most voters aren’t ‘elite’! And thank God, most voters aren’t Republican!