Our media is now just rich people interviewing each other

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Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. His net worth is estimated to be well over $1 million. Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She married her second husband, then Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship. Her personal net worth is estimated at over $8 million. This is what passes for "analysis" in the United States:
Andrea Mitchell: Peter Baker, is the congressional Democratic Party just too liberal for the country?

“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”

I think of the amazing things would could accomplish as a people and a species if we were not hobbled by being chained to such brazenly stupid people.   If we don't have the mental acuity to think beyond labels such as “progressive” and “liberal”  and instead think in terms of “people who generally favor some tangible benefit for the vast majority of people” - what hope do we have? Read the essay by Carlo M. Cipolla that Alby mentioned last week.   It explains so much about Republican Banditry and our national stupidity.