Neither Party is big on fact checking. Having belonged to one party my whole life, they both disgust me in their tactics. I hope to see a third party in my lifetime with more than a snowball's chance to succeed.
If I was a protagonist for one of the parties, stacking the deck of fact checkers and fact check manipulations in general would be high on my list of priorities.
I only trust Andy for true objectivities.
Mao wrote:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party
DikTracy6000 wrote:Neither Party is big on fact checking.
False equivalence.
Agreed. They're all liars, but this reeks of the anti-intellectualism that has infected the Republican party.
"The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all."
Given the complexity of so many modern issues it is nice to see that a group of politicians have decided to offer their point of view, independent of what passes for Convention wisdom.