[z3n]

“respectable Left”
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No such thing.
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That’s the problem, isn’t it?
The idiot masses (many of whom are really normally rather intelligent people) have been in the slow boiling pot of a decades long slow march to the left by the main stream media, and the most cunning part of it is not the propaganda that they promote, but the stories and the facts that the consistently omit.

We are now to the point where the media that most people tend to rely on as trustworthy and neutral are actively in the camp of radical leftist and hate mongers

[grobdriver]

The idiot masses (many of whom are really normally rather intelligent people) have been in the slow boiling pot

I would say, "ignorant masses"... otherwise you are spot on.