{"id":14325,"date":"2022-07-13T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14325"},"modified":"2022-07-13T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T01:32:11","slug":"no-both-sides-are-not-the-same-want-proof-bradcast-7132022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14325","title":{"rendered":"No, ‘Both Sides’ Are Not the Same. Want Proof?: ‘BradCast’ 7\/13\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve got a grab bag of news items on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, though almost all of it ends up making the same case: ‘Both sides’ are decidedly not<\/i> the same. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n

We kick off with some listener mail, critical of our recent show<\/a> discussing why it’s so deadly important to elect Democrats in 2022 in order to have any chance of saving American democracy itself — and much more along with it — before 2024. The listener argues that, in fact, democracy no longer exists in the U.S. following 2010’s Citizens United<\/i> ruling<\/a> by the Supreme Court. He argues that “both of the two major parties” are now so corrupted that “the chances of non-corporate funded candidates” being elected to national office are now “equivalent to nil”. While that may come as a surprise to folks like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, just to name a couple, there are many other reasons our correspondent couldn’t be more wrong. We explain why.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the news items in the rest of today’s program underscore why that lazy “both sides are the same” notion (while founded in fragments of cynically misreported truths) is dangerously wrong. They also underscore how those on the Left who buy into that self-defeating nonsense are being played as assuredly as Donald Trump and his MAGA buddies have played their own<\/i> gullible supporters.<\/p>\n

Among those news stories covered today…<\/p>\n