My various thoughts on reality
There has been a pretty interesting Media Bias Chart floating around over the past 6 months that, while useful, has some pretty serious issues with it - so we decided to do our own. What we felt needed correction is the assumptions that: - it is possible to be unbiased when reporting the news - … Continue reading The US Media Landscape
The United States, thanks to its winner takes all election system, is forever doomed to be in a two-party system. It’s basic game theory. For a 3rd party to become relevant at the national stage, it would have to oust and replace either the Democratic party or the Republican party. This is no easy feat. … Continue reading Breaking Into The Two-Party System
The only thing keeping Hillary alive right now is the large faction of Democrats who prefer Bernie's platform but think Hillary is more electable. The belief in Hillary's electability is based in a set of theories about the American electorate that held true from roughly 1968-2006, but have since lost their explanatory power. The conventional … Continue reading The Rules of Politics Have Changed
