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Imagine a hypothetical world where one political party does more illegal and immoral things than the other. Now imagine you run a news site that covers both pa
by panic 10y ago
Imagine a hypothetical world where one political party does more illegal and immoral things than the other. Now imagine you run a news site that covers both parties "equally": for every illegal and immoral thing one party does, it finds another from the other party and covers both. Is your news site partisan or non-partisan?
- kbutler 10y agoYes. And many people believe they live in such a hypothetical world. My experience under the Reagan, Bush1, Clinton, Bush2, and Obama administrations leads me to believe that there is plenty of misconduct on both sides of the aisle that should be exposed. You don't have to look very hard to find examples - it just takes listening a little bit to the other side occasionally, and not automatically disregarding everything they say. It looks to me like the party that abuses power more is the party that has more of it at the time. And yes, the Republicans have a worrisome amount of power at this time, so there is a lot of discussion on those potential abuses. The apocalyptic rhetoric is very similar (but of opposite polarity) to that in 2009 and other times, back at least to 1993.
- heroprotagonist 10y agoIt would seem to require a lot of coordination between the parties if they were _not_ to live in such a hypothetical world. I really don't think they're talking to each other and asking "Hey, have you done something wrong or immoral yet this week? I'm waiting to take my turn."