5 Lies and Distortions in The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22, 2016

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  1. The media abandoned all pretense of objectivity during the 2016 political campaign. (William McGurn, “Anti-Trumpers Channel Their Inner Donald”).
  2. Anti-Trump protestors are acting like hooligans, brownshirts, and anarchists,  and refuse to accept the election results (McGurn).
  3. Drug approvals are being needlessly delayed at the FDA because of the agency’s  insistence on the efficacy of long-term effects.  (Op ed: “A Trumpian Cure for the FDA’s Chronic Lethargy”). This is a distortion rather than a lie: It is axiomatic that drug approval takes longer when the gold standard is establishing positive long-term effects,not short term safety and efficacy, but considering long-term effects is an ethical norm, so can’t be measured in terms of market efficiency. Ignoring long-term outcomes will only put the public at risk even as it boosts corporate profits.
  4. Without bold world leadership–a Pax Americana– the Putin-Iran axis will assume world domination (editorial: “The Syrian Charnel House”). Are we headed for a new Cold War?
  5. The Iran nuclear deal is nothing short of an outright disaster, and will do nothing to deter Iranian nuclear development. (editorial: Mike Pompeo’s Iran File).

Glossary: Key memes, counterfactuals, dog whistles, canards, euphemisms, innuendoes, insinuations, fake outrages, and obsessions in The Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories and fever swamps, Nov. 18-21, 2016

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making America great again

rhetorical claim: Donald Trump has a green light to restore American pride and dominance, unimpeded by progressives, activist judges, and lifer bureaucrats.

rhetorical effect: Creates the expectation (probably really just a self-fulfilling prophecy) that Trump will waive his magic wand and transform America overnight.In reality, of course, as The Economist points out, Trump will be faced with daunting obstacles, restraints, precedents, complexities, and least-bad-choice decisions:

Take his policies first. After the sugar rush, populist policies eventually collapse under their own contradictions. Mr Trump has pledged to scrap the hated Obamacare. But that threatens to deprive over 20m hard-up Americans of health insurance. His tax cuts would chiefly benefit the rich and they would be financed by deficits that would increase debt-to-GDP by 25 percentage points by 2026. Even if he does not actually deport illegal immigrants, he will foment the divisive politics of race. Mr Trump has demanded trade concessions from China, Mexico and Canada on threat of tariffs and the scrapping of the North American Free Trade Agreement. His protectionism would further impoverish poor Americans, who gain more as consumers from cheap imports than they would as producers from suppressed competition. If he caused a trade war, the fragile global economy could tip into a recession. With interest rates near zero, policymakers would struggle to respond.

Abroad Mr Trump says he hates the deal freezing Iran’s nuclear programme. If it fails, he would have to choose between attacking Iran’s nuclear sites and seeing nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (see article). He wants to reverse the Paris agreement on climate change; apart from harming the planet, that would undermine America as a negotiating partner. Above all, he would erode America’s alliances—its greatest strength. Mr Trump has demanded that other countries pay more towards their security or he will walk away. His bargaining would weaken NATO, leaving front-line eastern European states vulnerable to Russia. It would encourage Chinese expansion in the South China Sea. Japan and South Korea may be tempted to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.

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economic nationalism

rhetorical claims: “America First” when it comes to trade pacts, currency  controls, fiscal policy, and tariffs. America’s greatness is best measured by economic prosperity.

rhetorical effect: normalizes the hard-edged  (Manifest Destiny, Lebensraum, etc) concept of nationalism  a fraught concept–far more threatening than “patriotism,” and, with the ascension of Stephen Bannon, linked to “white nationalism.” So making it innocently mean only economic autonomy is a way of laundering it.

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Islam

rhetorical claim: Islam is a malignant cancer, according to General Michael Flynn, who has also claimed that Sharia law is about to overtake the country.

rhetorical effect: literally demonizing the very name of a religion is a bedrock Goebbels rhetorical maneuver.  This accomplishes two goals: 1) delegitimizes Obama’s reluctance to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism,” out of fear of needlessly antagonizing and alienating Muslims worldwide, and, 2) paves the way for mandatory registries for Muslims, and eventually detention camps, especially if there is another terrorist attack in America.

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media hysteria

rhetorical claim: mainstream media attacks on Trump are “fake news” and amount to hysteria over his election. Most Americans are jubilant about it, but don’t demonstrate in the streets or break windows to prove it. Any lamestream media critique of Trump amounts to hysterical overreaction, scaremongering, crying wolf, etc.

rhetorical effect: paves the way for new libel laws, widespread media suppression, and, eventually, the criminalization of free political speech. If Trump critics are, by definition, hysterical,  they should be ignored and put away for their own good, just as women used to be.

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onerous fuel mileage  standards:

rhetorical claim: federal fuel mileage standards cripple the auto industry and thus cost jobs, effectively serving as a politicized, domestic tariff on car makers. The market will determine what mileage standards the American public can live with.

rhetorical effect: makes any mileage standard sound unreasonable and only existing as a political payoff to the “greens.” Undercuts any attempts at clean air regulation or environmental planning. Any regulation, in fact, is at bottom “onerous” because undue and punishing. Also makes it easier to argue for making higher-profit SUVs rather than smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.  Also makes profitability the sole criterion for measuring prosperity, ignoring the costs of dirty air.

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individual ratings

rhetorical claim: that individual health care rates will be the ultimate expression of a free health care market, with quality, patient-centered, affordable health care.

rhetorical effect: leaves patients at the mercy of insurance companies. The myth is that a pure free-market approach to health care is reasonable, fair, and transparent, whereas the truth is that such an approach cannot succeed because the market will squeeze out low income patients and anyone with pre-existing conditions.  Vouchers will only go so far, and subsidies will be necessary in order to offer everyone affordable insurance. Thus the “repeal and replace” ploy will only lead to either a soaring rate of uninsured or to re-inventing the Obamacare wheel, several years henceforth.

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patient responsibility

rhetorical claim: health care costs will come down only when working families take responsibility for rationing and paying for health care. Until then, they live heedless of health outcomes because they assume that their employers are paying the bill.

rhetorical effect: Blames individual patients for their medical conditions, and will inevitably lead to rationing, which is  inevitable in any insurance scheme because everyone can’t be covered for everything. In Ryancare (or Trumpcare), individuals will get the blame for unaffordable insurance rates. Anyone not healthy will be labeled “irresponsible”.

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boorish and self-c0ngratulatory demonstrators

 rhetorical claim: bringing up issues of diversity and equality , as the cast of Hamilton recently did to Mike Pence, is rude and condescending. Tolerant and decent Americans don’t need lectures from race-baiters.

rhetorical effect: even bringing up race and redistribution will become politically toxic. Racism and bigotry will become so normalized that they will either disappear as concepts or become their opposites.

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political violence

rhetorical claim: that anti-Trump activists are thuggish brownshirts, anarchists, and hypocrites as they indulge in the same behavior they chastised Trump for when he as a candidate.

rhetorical effect: potentially criminalizes dissent by calling it violence, a tactic right out of the Nixon playbook

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fast-track drug approval

 rhetorical claims: drug approval by the FDA should be based  on safety and efficacy, not long-term outcomes. The Internet of Things will make sure that consumers and physicians can make their own decisions about long-term effects  because the market is always the most efficient source of informationt puts the public

rhetorical effects:makes it seem perfectly reasonable and even advantageous to get drugs to market as quickly as possible, regardless of long-term effects. This inevitable outcome of insufficient proofs of efficacy puts the public at  risk while all the while increasing drug company profits.

5 Lies and Distortions in the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 21, 2016

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  1. America has the highest marginal effective tax rate  (MERT) in the industrial world.  (editorial, “Ford’s Tango With Trump”.)Technically, this is true, but, as American Progress points out:

    Tax spending in the form of corporate tax breaks for certain groups of companies—such as oil and gas producers, insurance companies, U.S. multinationals, as well as others—amounts to more than $150 billion annually. These tax breaks enable companies to pay a much lower effective tax rate. In other words, these tax breaks dramatically reduce the amount of a corporation’s income that is subject to the 35 percent statutory corporate income tax rate, making their overall effective tax rate lower than the statutory rate—in some cases, much lower. For example, in a study that compared income companies reported on their 2010 financial books with income that they reported on their 2010 corporate tax returns, the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, found that profitable U.S. corporations paid an effective tax rate of 22.7 percent. In a 2012 report, the U.S. Department of the Treasury found that U.S. corporate effective tax rates were in the same range as those of its G7 trading partners despite the higher statutory corporate income tax rate in the United States.

  2. Health care costs are rising because of the burdens imposed by Obamacare.  9letter to the editor). Yes, health care costs are rising, but more slowly than average between 2013-16.  Health care costs will continue to rise after Obamacare has been repealed and replaced.
  3. “President Obama pledged to wield a pen and phone during his second term rather than engage with Congress.” (op-ed, “Trump Can Ax the Clean Power Plan by Executive Order”).  Obama actually tried early in his term, during 2013, to get bipartisan legislation on immigration reform, gun control, and a grand budget agreement, but to no avail.
  4. College learning outcomes are measured solely by how many graduates get jobs in their field immediately after graduation. (op-ed: “Entrepreneurial Solutions to Skyrocketing Tuition.”) Learning outcomes actually come in many forms–community service, and voluntarism,  critical thinking skills, citizenship skills, appreciating the arts,  working in teams, being able to pout together an argument using evidence, etc.
  5. We have to “modernize” our nuclear arsenal lest the Russians or Chinese unleash first-strike attacks.  (op-ed: “Trump’s Nuclear Deterrence challenge”) . This nuclear scare-mongering is based on Herman Kahn’s Mutually-Assured Destruction (MAD) theory, also extracted in today’s WSJ op-ed pages. Is the Journal paving the way for a new nuclear arms race with the Russians and Chinese? If so, Louis Menand’s reflections on Kahn’s deterrence mentality will ring true:

    the Cold War “ontology of the enemy”—the image of the adversary as a “cold-blooded, machinelike opponent . . . a mechanized Enemy Other.” The machine does not have ideals or values, issues on which it might compromise or goals that might encompass something other than its own aggrandizement. It wants only to win, and every move it makes is a move in that game. It’s a short step from this abstraction to the domino theory, the belief that Communist expansion is an inexorable and practically mindless force.

Glossary: Key memes, counterfactuals, dog whistles, canards, euphemisms, innuendoes, insinuations, fake outrages, and obsessions in The Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories and fever swamps, Nov. 15-18, 2016

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anti-discrimination laws: ironically named because they most often discriminate against religious liberty, and the freedoms of speech and action. The real victims are those conscientious objectors who want to live out their faith in the marketplace without fear of prosecution for doing so.

arming yourself: being morally serious because you take others’ welfare into account. The innocent and law-abiding should be armed.

bigots: demonstrators now out in the streets protesting Trump. They are the haters.

Black Lives Matter: cop haters.

Common Core math: always favors the progressives; book-cooked.

Confederacy: a patriotic and idealistic cause, according to Steve Bannon.

democracy export: the progressives squishes’ recipe for American foreign policy weakness; a fatal and debilitating idealism. President Trump has already shown he can do business with the world’s strongest leaders,and our improved relations with Russia, China, Turkey, etc. will make America great again.

Instead of exporting democratic ideals, Trump will export xenophobia, nationalism, racial animus, suppression of free speech and the media, and a natural bias toward propaganda and outright lies.

detainees: what he Dems call terrorists in Gitmo. Right up there with calling terrorist attacks “workplace violence” and refusing to identify terrorist as radical Muslims.

the economy: to progressives, the daily life of work, profit, and loss that sends them revenue they can then redistribute to their constituents via bureaucratic rules and laws. Some might call it redistribution.

green gravy train: taxpayer funded indulgence so condescending, smug climate crusaders can feed their moral vanity.

law school liberalism: the inbred creed of the Ivy League-tinged  bi-coastal elites who so disdain  the citizens of “flyover country.”

protestors: undemocratic, out-of-control hooligans.

rule of law: law and order and stop and frisk.

In the case of Hillary, guilty until proven innocent. The Trump administration, in its headlong rush to obliterate the Obama legacy,  will attempt to repeal the rule of law by ignoring statutes, regulations, and precedents.

safety pin generation: like to wear government-issued diapers.

sexism: calling women who voted for Trump sexist.

slacker mandate: The ACA provision that employer-based health plans cover employees’ children until they turn 26 years old. Another piece of cradle-to-grave candy; another unfunded mandate.

terrorists: Obama’s biggest supporters.

treachery: working with Democrats.

Trumponomics: the new order of a market economy unleashed from regulation and the “oversight” of lifer bureaucrats.

In reality, as Matthew Yglesias argues in Vox:

The larger risk, however, is that Trump’s lack of grounding in ideological principles or party networks will create a systemically corrupt government. Such governments, Wallis writes, “are rent creating, not rent seeking, governments” that operate by “limiting access to markets and resources in order to create rents that bind the interests of the ruling coalition together.”

This is how Vladimir Putin governs Russia, and how the Mubarak/Sisi regime rules Egypt. To be a successful businessman in a systemically corrupt regime and to be a close supporter of the regime are one and the same thing.

Those who support the regime will receive favorable treatment from regulators, and those who oppose it will not. Because businesses do business with each other, the network becomes self-reinforcing. Regime-friendly banks receive a light regulatory touch while their rivals are crushed. In exchange, they offer friendly lending terms to regime-friendly businesses while choking capital to rivals. Such a system, once in place, is extremely difficult to dislodge precisely because, unlike a fascist or communist regime, it is glued together by no ideology beyond basic human greed, insecurity, and love of family.

 

 

 

 

 

8 Wall Street Journal Lies and Distortions, Nov. 18, 2016

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  1. Dem economic policies have undermined the middle and lower classes. (Kimberley Strassel, “The Democrats Double Down.”)
  2. Small businesses are drowning under ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank. (Srassel)
  3. The Dems have lost power because of scandal, laziness, a disdain of ordinary people (especially women), and a loss of principle. (Strassel)
  4. Europe is being overwhelmed by a Syrian refugee flow caused solely by Obama’s reluctance to support opposition to Assad. (editorial: “Barack and Angela Say Farewell”).
  5. Obama was more willing to talk about leading the west than actually leading it. (editorial–see above).
  6. It’s sexist to say that women voted against Hillary because they were skeptical about women’s political leadership. Women voted against Hillary because they thought for themselves and didn’t trust her. (letter to the editor)
  7. Current demonstrators against a Trump presidency are the haters and bigots they are demonstrating against. (letter to the editor)
  8. Unless checked by Trump, Radical Islam will usher in a new domino effect in its headlong rush toward world domination.(columns on Melvin Laird).

Top five Wall Street Journal lies and distortions of the day, November 17, 2016

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1.blaming the housing crash on minorities

2.casting the Tea Party/GOP as the populist workers’ party when their first orders of business will be deregulating the financial industry, eliminating the estate tax,  and passing the largest-ever tax cuts for the wealthy.

3.  US schools and teachers unions universally treated Obama’s election with “rallies and songs of homage,” but portrayed Romney, Bush and Trump as proto-fascist racists and war criminals.

4. EPA regulations cost $7 billion annually, and  that the environmental and health regulatory burden since 1980 has cost each American $13,000. Never mind any health benefits from clean air and water, reduced smoking, etc.

5. repealing the Volcker Rule and other regulations designed to force banks to be more capitalized and have less risk (aka lowered asset-based leverage ratios) will set the banks free, add to their liquidity, and unleash a new era of financial entrepreneurship.

Be very afraid.

Glossary: Key memes, counterfactuals, dog whistles, canards, euphemisms, innuendoes, insinuations, fake outrages, and obsessions in The Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories and fever swamps, Nov. 12-15, 2016

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bank deregulation:  Freeing up the “animal spirits” of the market, especially in terms of loosening mortgage lending regulations.

Trump’s first move to support the common man!

big government: the opposite of the Constitution. Constitutional law will be great again, which means making it once again resonate with this nation’s heritage—not abstract principles divorced from our lived experience and accumulated wisdom as a people.

consumer-directed health arrangements: at the heart of the “replace” part of repealing and replacing Obamacare. Innovations such as health saving accounts and tax credits will replace Obamacare’s byzantine maze of subsidies, mandates, and penalties. The newly-freed market will drive prices down as consumers get more choices.

This is Orwellian-speak for insurance industry-driven health care policy. Consumers will be forced to do anything except “direct” the health care market, since there will be no price controls, lowered state regulation, a slow drowning  of Medicaid via state block grants, and, if Paul Ryan gets his way with “premium support” (aka, vouchers), the privatization of Medicare. The only thing re-formed will be consumers’ soaring net health care expenditures, as the vouchers and tax credits are inevitably unable to keep pace with rising health care and insurance prices. Calling it premium support, not premium reimbursement means that it will be at best partial.

defenders of freedom: Trump supporters. Trump haters would take away freedom of speech and thought.

European-Americans: the single most discriminated against group in the recent )and now past) “pc” era of American history. Note: does not include jews.

fear: a good thing, according to Steve Bannon. As he put it in 2010, “Fear is going to lead you to take action.”

feeling good: the liberal-progressive, baby boomers’ mantra. How eclipsed by  Trumpism, with its return to morality, responsibility, patriotism, social mores, and discipline.

feminism:  a needy, demanding, touchy-feely form of attention-seeking.

justice: to progressives, Hillary somehow winning the election.

the multicultural raj: the pc crowd that was voted out Nov. 8. Multiethnic is good because it doesn’t engage in victimhood-mongering and balkanization. Progressives need to get over multiculturalism because there is only one culture: the American culture.

popular vote advantage: Clintonistas’ form of denial of the election of Donald Trump.

progressive agenda:  having the government govern the people, as opposed to the people governing the government.

snowflakes: media slime and feinting-couch progressives calling in sick and hovering in safe places under their beds — the dopes marching in the streets demanding civility as they shout threats to grab Trump by his genitals.

Steven Bannon: a controversial figure who ran a provocative website. Also a patriot who only wants what’s best for America.

Also a misogynist, xenophobic, racist, anti-Semitic bomb-thrower.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary: Key memes, counterfactuals, dog whistles, canards, euphemisms, innuendoes, insinuations, fake outrages, and obsessions in The Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories and fever swamps, Nov. 8-12, 2016

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Barack Obama: the ultimate free-lunch politician, handing out new entitlements like candy.

Clinton Foundation: a bribe pump. Hillary is the Godmother.

deserving: the feeling that those Hillary called the “deplorables” aren’t getting what they deserve, whereas lots of other Americans, especially urbanites, are getting what they don’t deserve.

diversity: apartheid, American-style.

fuel standards: economically unjustifiable nanny state regulations

free (as in free tuition): paid for by others.

opportunity inequality: the new equality challenge: overcome the leveling and crippling stranglehold of teachers’ unions so children can learn 21st century skills in charter and private schools. We need to create a new creative class because you can’t redisribute your way to economic growth or progress.

Paris climate drum circle: the draconian anti-carbon cabal of wealthy environmentalists and self-righteous “green” elites.

political correctness: deference to “victims”: women, minorities, LGBT, etc. We are captives to historical shame that is no longer relevant. Eventually, someone is going to have to tell those “porch  niggers” to find a job. Every deferential gesture–the war on poverty, affirmative action, Obamacare, every kind of “diversity” scheme–only weakens the recipients.

trigger warnings: weaponized offense-taking.

winners and losers: the 2016 election’s winners: Donald Trump, the American people, the US Constitution, Constitutional originalist judges, frackers,  the Keystone Pipeline, the free market, growing the economy instead of growing entitlements, etc.  America is going to win so much it will get sick of winning.

Losers: Hillary Clinton , media, cultural, academic and  green elites,  smug liberals who look down on working people, “climate change”,  LGBT perverts, Black Lives Matter activists, feminazis,  political correctness, progressivism, social engineering,  identity politics, terrorists everywhere, Obamacare, activist judges, free traders and globalists, baby killers, “Pocohantas” Warren, Iran, China, Mexico, arrogant entitlement,

The real winners: corporations, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, bankers and Wall Street, racists, vulgarians, misogynists, nativists and xenophobes,, authoritarians, white supremacists, lobbyists, bullies, the alt-right, coal, fascism, greed, Citizens United,

The real losers:  vanity, hate, arrogance,  recklessness, decency, equity, fairness, moderation, compromise, respect and dignity, the planet Earth, scientific fact, democratic norms, marriage equality, reproductive rights, the rule of law, fuel standards

 

Glossary: Key memes, counterfactuals, dog whistles, canards, euphemisms, innuendoes, insinuations, fake outrages, and obsessions in The Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories and fever swamps, Nov. 4-8, 2016

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business: to the Dems, another arm of the state, rather than being driven by the free market. (see “public service,”below)

fact-checking: to the Dems, a vehicle to do partisan politics.

Hillary supporters: Inside-the-Beltway, trust-funded supercilious snots from third-tier Ivy League wannabe schools who, as Victor Davis Hanson put it, “sound quite clever without being especially bright, attuned to social justice without character. Their religion is not so much progressivism as appearing cool and hip and ‘right’ on the issues … . Well-connected and mediocre … . They write and sound off about the buffoon Trump and preen in sanctimonious moral outrage … .”

market distortions: public safety, public health, financial regulation rules and laws, welfare, environmental regulation–all the ways the Dems distort the free market’s natural outcomes.

As Karl Polanyi argued,  the “Market Society” substitutes utility and self-interest for reciprocity and redistribution. Economic policy decisions intended to ameliorate the Darwinian/Hobbesian aspects of the “free” market actually are the free market, not distortions of it. Without them, there is no market.

minimum wage increase: Teenage Job Elimination Act

the press never talks about it: the rising murder rate, global cooling, immigrant murderers and rapists, the Clinton Foundation’s shakedown schemes, Hillary’s lying about her Benghazi coverup or her e-mails, the millions of immigrants pouring over our borders, etc.

The press never talks about these things because they aren’t true.

public schools: Dem dropout factories. By protecting the teachers’ unions, the Dems are sentencing millions of black kids to academic failure.

public service: to the Dems, deferred compensation, as they move to the meeting place of government and business.

redistribution: Dem buzzword/smokescreen for redistributing political power–to the Dems!

rigged system the insider elites who control Washington and “rig” the system so the free market is never set free.

As Paul Krugman, paraphrasing Robert Reich, argues, the opposite is actually true: the elites make sure the playing field is always “predistributed” to tilt in their favor:

there’s a feedback loop between political and market power. Rising wealth at the top buys growing political influence, via campaign contributions, lobbying, and the rewards of the revolving door. Political influence in turn is used to rewrite the rules of the game—antitrust laws, deregulation, changes in contract law, union-busting—in a way that reinforces income concentration. The result is a sort of spiral, a vicious circle of oligarchy.

The Tea Party/GOP’s faux populism is intended to cover over, and perpetuate, this “vicious circle of oligarchy.” Donald Trump, of course, has been at the center of this circle for his entire life. The system has actually been “rigged” for him via tax breaks, write-offs, lawsuits over property and contract rules, cheap foreign labor, free publicity, etc. He’s right-the system is rigged–but he’s done the rigging, and his phony populism–“the blue collar billionaire” meme– shouldn’t fool anyone.

 

 

 

Glossary: Key memes, counterfactuals, dog whistles, canards, euphemisms, innuendoes, insinuations, fake outrages, and obsessions in The Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories and fever swamps, October 29-Nov. 3, 2016

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authenticity and authority: Donald Trump is succeeding because voters think that everything he says is “real” and unvarnished. He does not hypocritically say one thing and believe another. He “tells it like it is,” even if the pc crown and corrupt media don’t like what he says.

Trump’s “authority” is really authoritarianism. He doesn’t say things because they’re right, or command an action because it’s good. Rather, what he says is right just because he says it, even if it’s clearly a lie or distortion, and what he commands is good, even if it is morally heinous (torturing, banning Muslims, seeing Mexicans as murderers and rapists, punishing women for abortions, etc.). The only shared meanings in Trumpland are meanings he creates. Even authoritarianism is preferable to liberalism.

Election Day: Judgment Day, when the lib-Dems get their comeuppance.

ending a war: what the Dems confuse with walking way from a war.

go-between governing: the Obama/Clinton usurpation of representative government via unaccountable executive orders, bureaucracies, various “czars” , and the courts. This workaround solution to avoiding direct tyranny.

governing: in Hillary’s mind, complicating Americans’ lives with more rules, more legal pitfalls for citizens, and more mandates for business. Her regulatory model is to destroy businesses while doling out favors to political constituents, billing the taxpayer all the while.

lamestream media: inbred, conflicted, morally-challenged. Loyal lapdogs of Clinton, Inc.

lost American jobs: due to affirmative action, government regulation,  immigrants, China and Mexico, etc.

mutual respect: Kumbaya political correctness.

pollution: the sacrifice we make for capitalism.

Along with premature death, environmental destruction, gaping inequality, etc.

sympathy fatigue: Being sick of pc culture: the feeling that the liberals love everyone but you, including criminal immigrants, Afro-Americans on welfare, shorebirds, college students with “trigger” issues, transsexuals, etc.

welfare: theft from the American people.