Voters Are Tilting Anti-Establishment

realclearpolitics.com ^ | 6/25/15 | Lawrence Lindsey

[Jan_Sobieski]

Me too...after today I expect the Sodomites will invade evangelical churches and force them to officiate Sodomite Marriages. Any God fearing church will not do so causing lawsuits and negative media coverage...it goes on...

[zzwhale]

AMERIKA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC
loss of confidence is an understatement

some say perhaps another march on DC would convey the message, this time for face to face conversation with congress.... a few million talking with their congressmen face to face conveying the concerns ought to do it....

[VR-21]

"And their first order of business is making sure that it doesn't matter how we vote."

Hasn't the GOP already taken care of that?

[The Working Man]

As for myself, I believe that the Politicians are in their ‘happy place’. The Country is pretty much divided 50/50 over nearly all issues.

That means that they can do ‘nothing’ and say it was the ‘other guy’ who stopped them from fulfilling their ‘constituents’ desires/wishes/orders. For a professional politician these are the best days of their lives.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“Anti-establishment” can only mean “Conservative.”

Wire service journalism is the Establishment in America.

The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect . . .

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires . . .

The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.

. . . The natural disposition is always to believe . . . It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments

Thus, we can expect nothing else of journalists than that they would place being thought of as influential above all else - and we expect quite a lot of our fellow man when we expect him to be prudently skeptical.  

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

Journalist “meet together” constantly; the Associated Press was founded a decade before the Civil War, and has been conducting a virtual conversation among journalists - not about “merriment or diversion,” but precisely about what the news is - ever since.

People talk about “the media,” but to really face up to the problem we need to be frank about who is the central problem - it is mainstream journalism. And we have every reason to treat it with skepticism.