Appeals Court Rules Against the Government!

Bill Fishlore said:
I appreciate the articulate and concise summary of all the ills which have caused conservatives to call for a radical cleansing of our public life. I don't so much disagree with your diagnosis as think that the corruption has been a bipartisan product of shifting conflicts within America's ruling oligarchy, conflicts made more bitter by the changing of our economy brought about by globalization and new technologies. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have clean paws in this fight. As long as the red versus blue shouting match continues, it prevents reform in either party. Both sides need to clean house; neither side can clean the other's house.
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I genuinely believe this traces back to what the #1 fear for politicians of each party tend to be:
#1 Republican fear: Slander from the mass media
#1 Democrat fear: Truth being exposed by the mass media

This fear by many Republican politicians has caused some of them to edge closer to the Democrat Party out of fear that if they don't, the corrupt mainstream media may attack their character and try to destroy them and their party by making up lies about them. It also causes them to worry about effectively being able to raise money from donors who become worried about the mainstream media reports they're seeing, regardless of how false the reporting is. It becomes the power of perception over reality. This is also why, during the rise of the Tea Party, it caused many of them to vote for candidates who would do the will of the people and who portrayed themselves as being fearless and unafraid of a dishonest and biased media onslaught, and could very well explain why Trump is president today.

Republicans have long felt that they are being held to a much higher standard by the media. They not only have to be Mother Theresa in character, but they are virtually forced to become Democrats in policy or else be slandered in the media. This is why I say, and will continue to believe, that the corrupt mainstream media is genuinely behind much of the decay that we see in politics today, because if they actually were objective and held everyone to equal standards (exposing and investigating both sides with equal vigor), and an allowance for policy differences to be reported and explained without slander or character assassination, that not only would policies be IMMENSELY better, but so would the political discourse among each side.
 
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"Republicans have long felt that they are being held to a much higher standard by the media." b3 #142

It's the opposite.
Republicans try to snow us into believing they're superior. They advocate usurping a woman's right of choice, and call any woman that has such service, and the OB/GYNs that perform them "baby killers" and "murderers".

The only military uniform Trump has ever worn was his high school / boarding school uniform. Yet he has the temerity to insult one of our most esteemed senior senators, Senator McCain (R-AZ).

Commenting on Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
"He's not a war hero.
He is a war hero.
He's a war hero because he was captured.
I like people that weren't captured. OK?" Donald Trump: July 2015 seeking the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential race

Claiming moral superiority is perilous. Caution.

“You claim the mantle of the party of family values, and this is the guy you nominate”. President Obama commenting on the Republican party's nomination of Donald Trump (during headline news of Trump boasting about inappropriate behavior w/ women) FOX / Google 16/10/13
 
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