@Finn dAbuzz,
Quote:And that was pretty much my point, but blatham seems to think all evil flows from the right.
It's not that all evil flows from the right — its that the right has the means to successfully promote lies and half-truths and sell its message to the resentful. The left has some institutional power in academia and in the press and of course there are wealthy individuals who contribute to "leftist" causes and candidates, but the left's funding sources pale when compared to those of the right. So while both sides may harbor nasty vindictive people — along with lovable ones like Finn and Bernie — only the right has deep enough pockets to successfully promote organizations like ALEC. Or the Koch-funded campaign of climate change denial. Or think tanks devoted to destroying public education ("government schools"). Or media commentators paid in the tens of millions of dollars to uncritically defend Trump and conduct continuing hate campaigns against people like HRC, Soros, and Jimmy Carter. The right would be foundering without its vast sources of money, its ability to out-shout every other viewpoint, and its slick 30 year old ad campaign to promote itself as the champion of middle-class white America. Money is the medium. Money is the message. It's all about money.