Why does the right keep pretending the left runs America?

Mr. Caputo, a long-time Trump loyalist and the Department of Health and Human Services’s assistant secretary of public affairs, had apologized for his Facebook presentation to his staff and to Alex M. Azar II, the department’s leader, after his comments became public.


Michael R. Caputo, the embattled top spokesman of the cabinet department overseeing the coronavirus response, will take a leave of absence “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family,” the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.

Mr. Caputo’s science adviser, Dr. Paul Alexander, will be leaving the department.

The announcement came after a bizarre and inflammatory Facebook outburst on Sept. 13 and disclosures that he and his team had tried to water down official reports of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention about the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
Mr. Caputo, a long-time Trump loyalist and the Department of Health and Human Services’s assistant secretary of public affairs, had apologized for his Facebook presentation to his staff and to Alex M. Azar II, the department’s leader, after his comments became public.


Michael R. Caputo, the embattled top spokesman of the cabinet department overseeing the coronavirus response, will take a leave of absence “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family,” the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.

Mr. Caputo’s science adviser, Dr. Paul Alexander, will be leaving the department.

The announcement came after a bizarre and inflammatory Facebook outburst on Sept. 13 and disclosures that he and his team had tried to water down official reports of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention about the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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Owlwomen thinks the assistant secretary of public affairs runs the whole department

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“Liberal Bias” in Academia: Media Narrative vs. Social Science

The best survey data we have on the political attitudes of professors suggest a seed of truth in conservative complaints about the liberal faculty lounge—but just a seed. The American academy is more liberal than the general public, and it contains a larger proportion of liberals than other major professions. But critics of academic leftism routinely overstate their claims, in some cases grossly so.

By and large, most professors self-identify as moderates of one kind or another. The mundane sociological truth is that academics are broadly representative of the demographic from which they are selected: highly educated people.

http://dailynous.com/2020/09/16/liberal-bias-academia-media-narrative-vs-social-science/
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
But listen to both the mainstream and fringes of the political right and you’d get the impression that “cultural Marxism” is the reigning religion of the west.

“There are many, there are many many, we see them all the time,” President Trump said in his latest Republican national convention speech, warning about the “wild-eyed Marxists” to whom Joe Biden would be unable to stand up, and who would constitute “a Trojan horse for socialism” in the United States.
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Easy, because it generates support among their followers. The left gets the same effect by claiming wealthy, greedy capitalists run the country.
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
But listen to both the mainstream and fringes of the political right and you’d get the impression that “cultural Marxism” is the reigning religion of the west.

“There are many, there are many many, we see them all the time,” President Trump said in his latest Republican national convention speech, warning about the “wild-eyed Marxists” to whom Joe Biden would be unable to stand up, and who would constitute “a Trojan horse for socialism” in the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/right-pretending-left-runs-britain
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Every melodrama has to have a bad guy, the right lives on what their demagogues offer them, every right wing radio, web, social media, TV talking head is theater, good guys\bad guys, keep it simple for entertainment value, as I said, a melodrama, and something as abstract as Marxism is the perfect villain
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
But listen to both the mainstream and fringes of the political right and you’d get the impression that “cultural Marxism” is the reigning religion of the west.

“There are many, there are many many, we see them all the time,” President Trump said in his latest Republican national convention speech, warning about the “wild-eyed Marxists” to whom Joe Biden would be unable to stand up, and who would constitute “a Trojan horse for socialism” in the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/right-pretending-left-runs-britain
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Bernie Sanders hails a liberal movement in transition in ...www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2020/08/17
Aug 17, 2020 - “Many of the ideas we fought for, that just a few years ago were considered radical, are now mainstream,” Sanders said in his address, ...
 
archives said:
Every melodrama has to have a bad guy, the right lives on what their demagogues offer them, every right wing radio, web, social media, TV talking head is theater, good guys\bad guys, keep it simple for entertainment value, as I said, a melodrama, and something as abstract as Marxism is the perfect villain
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Every time I ask a conservative what they mean by "marxism," their reply is, "duh, Democrats." Duh, indeed.
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
The best survey data we have on the political attitudes of professors suggest a seed of truth in conservative complaints about the liberal faculty lounge—but just a seed. The American academy is more liberal than the general public, and it contains a larger proportion of liberals than other major professions. But critics of academic leftism routinely overstate their claims, in some cases grossly so.

By and large, most professors self-identify as moderates of one kind or another. The mundane sociological truth is that academics are broadly representative of the demographic from which they are selected: highly educated people.

http://dailynous.com/2020/09/16/liberal-bias-academia-media-narrative-vs-social-science/
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What a load of crap that is... self identify as moderates... If for example, you have a department at some university where all of the professors, etc., are by comparison to the public-at-large on the radical Left, some on the far fringes of that, and many of them self-identify as "moderate" because their views aren't nearly as extreme as some of their co-worker's doesn't make them "moderate." It makes them radical Leftists just not quite as radical as some of their compatriots.

So, using self-reporting as a means to determine this is completely worthless nonsense.

Worse, when you go to the original source for the article cited (here):

https://social-epistemology.com/

You find it's a radical Leftist academic site for Sociologists and related fields populated by articles from radical Leftist academics. It amounts to Us radical Leftist professors did a "study" and found that most of us are really moderates not radical Leftists....
 
T. A. Gardner said:
What a load of crap that is... self identify as moderates... If for example, you have a department at some university where all of the professors, etc., are by comparison to the public-at-large on the radical Left, some on the far fringes of that, and many of them self-identify as "moderate" because their views aren't nearly as extreme as some of their co-worker's doesn't make them "moderate." It makes them radical Leftists just not quite as radical as some of their compatriots.

So, using self-reporting as a means to determine this is completely worthless nonsense.
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And your made up story is supposed to establish facts?!
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
Most of what you write is made up crap.
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Here, this should sooth the pain you are feeling...

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