David Catron writes for the American Spectator about dissatisfaction with a major political party and its chief enabler.
Anyone old enough to have watched the original Star Wars film on the big screen will clearly remember the scene in which Obi-Wan Kenobi advises Luke Skywalker that the Mos Eisley settlement is “a wretched hive of scum and villainy.” According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, this is very much the way most voters view the Democratic Party. Specifically, the survey found that 63 percent of voters hold an unfavorable view of “the Party of Jefferson and Jackson.” Considering the absurd antics to which voters have been subjected by these people, it’s remarkable that their numbers aren’t worse.
The only group of people held in less esteem by the public than the Democrats are their accomplices in the corporate media. The most recent Gallup survey found the following: “Americans’ trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in more than five decades … with 31 percent trusting the media a great deal or a fair amount.” Gallup also points out, “Confidence in news has fallen more than confidence in other institutions.” For example, net confidence in small business and the military stand at a relatively high +61 and +49 percent respectively, but television news and newspapers are far below periscope depth at -44 and -30 percent respectively. To a large degree the woes of the Democrats and legacy media are caused by their deeply dysfunctional codependent relationship.
It has long been blindingly obvious to any objective observer that the majority of “mainstream news outlets” collude with the Democrats to create political narratives to benefit the latter. Conversely, these same news organizations routinely slant their coverage of Republicans in a way that is both dishonest and openly hostile. That is hardly a surprise, considering that most journalists identify as Democrats.
