How can logical, reasoned arguments work ...

Democrats, progressives, liberals keep writing as if they were dealing with the rational, the legal, the Constitutional, the just:

The Many Costs of the New HHS Rule Privileging Conscience Over Patients

"It’s really quite astonishing that the Bush administration would seek to implement new regulations — to the costly tune of $44 million — to appease social conservatives during the final months of Bush’s presidency."

No, no. Haven't you been paying attention. This is not 'astonishing' at all. Where have you been for the last 7+ years?

You have to hand it to Glenn Greenwald. He sees, understands and writes accurately and lucidly about all manner of complicated issues:

What's missing from the Democratic convention?

But I think in this case Glenn has missed the critical issue. The US has already been taken over. By the corporate press. If the press can't turn an anti-Bush country into a pro-McSame country, and they are well on their way to doing so, then they will back up any attempts the Republicans make to steal the election.

Democrats don't control the message coming out of the convention. It's massaged, manipulated, ignored, lied about by the media who are in charge of what most US citizens see, read and know about the US and the world.

Would any sane organization let the opposition place their operatives right in their convention and control the information that flows out of it if they could (and wanted to) do otherwise?

Right wing TV Pundits destroy every segment on Democratic Convention

Where's The Hatred?

"So if the hatred isn't among the Democrats, then maybe it's among those who are reporting this crap?"

Those 'reporting this crap' control the message. It will take much effort and money to counter this 'crap' and even then most outlets are controlled by the other party and they have the power to refuse to air the democratic messages. And even when they do air them they have dedicated staff to talk 24/7 against the democrats.

Where the Bush campaigns and administration initially attempted to hide or downplay their flouting of the law and their installation of a system where laws only apply to those who oppose them politically, the double standard is now quite open and pervasive:

Protest Politics

The Obama Plotters: The Republican Double Standard In Law Enforcement Made Manifest

As Glenn Greenwald looks at what's missing from the Democratic Convention, I can't get away from the idea that, for years now, the Democrats have been ignoring the elephant in the room. (pun?) The elephant is the GOP control of the media. That control, and many others have written about this better than I can, that control is both direct and indirect. The Democrats have done absolutely nothing to counter this fact (that I can see).

Mostly what I see is a party that continues to act as if the country was working as it was intended to and 'hoping' that the Constitutional mechanisms will, in the end, work. Well, I hope so also, but I don't see how this will work, nor how the country can rally behind the effort, when the real problems remain unspoken by those who claim to lead us.

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From the Gender Genie:

Words: 493

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 578
Male Score: 876

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

I'm not sure why it matters, but obviously it matter to some, enough to have programs that assign words feminine and masculine values.