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Originally Posted by finnbow

Just take the loss graciously. Jeez.

What loss? Some folks sing in the shower. I suspect you practice spiking the football.

Let me help you with your deranged view us the dangers evangelical voters. Whatever influence evangelical voters may have had in prior elections, it's declining pretty quickly. The young voters that the Dems desperately need to get to the polls are the same ones whose attachment to religious beliefs are declining rapidly. So, please stop worrying about an evangelical caliphate taking over Washington DC.

Also, as far as the media being an enemy of the people, don't worry. Folks really don't trust the media anyway. Here's the way Axios puts it:

- Just 5% of Republicans said they had "a great deal or quite a lot of confidence" in newspapers, compared to 35% of Democrats.
- Only 8% of Republicans said they had "a great deal or quite a lot of confidence" in TV news, compared to 20% of Democrats.
- Independents' views are generally closer to Republicans'.

So, the media has pretty much lost the trust of Repubs and Independents completely. But they've also lost the trust of the vast majority of Dems as well. Only 20% of Dems trust the TV news, and only 35% of Dems trust print media.

Do you have any idea the gravity of that? The news business in this country has "devolved" to the point where only a small percentage of the electorate trusts them. That's not by accident. The media had to work pretty hard to fall that low.

Given that the media have unique protections, and a unique role, in this country, these numbers suggest they've failed pretty miserably, and they've surrendered their role as a mechanism to make the elected class accountable.

Chick's world. Sad.