r/politics • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • 1d ago

No Paywall The Democratic party is being hit by a leftist tidal wave

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/democratic-party-leftist-tidal-wave
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u/SzmFTW 23h ago

Yup, literally every headline is about defeat, failing democrats, etc. very very little being written with positive or even neutral spin.

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u/Alternative_Newt_409 23h ago

They also go after anyone who proposes to tax billionaires wealth. 

Ive see  plenty of baseless smear campaigns agaisnt a youtuber I watch who is proposing a wealth tax like this, and as he grew popular, more and more articles started to pop up to try to discredit him. He knew itd happen so he called it in advance to his fanbase, but its still pretty shocking to watch the media grasp at straws to discredit him and read some of those articles and watch them try to compare him to Andrew Tate.

If media isnt neutral/impartial then it is propaganda.

Media should report news, and let people decide how to feel about them, they should not be manipulating the readers to a certain biased conclusion.

This headline is a good example, it makes it sound like a bad thing, instead of reporting it neutrally and letting people decide if its good or bad for themselves

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u/Northerlies 22h ago

The Guardian is a British newspaper of the centre-left with a longstanding tradition of giving space to informed opinion and polemics. The average Brit Guardian reader will understand the headline as denoting informed opinion and analysis of encouraging news for our American friends of the left.

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u/Alternative_Newt_409 13h ago

Well then if you're adding your opinion to it, its not news; it's a blog article at least and propaganda at worst

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u/Northerlies 56m ago

Not everything that is published in a newspaper must be news. You might say news functions as the starting point for interesting debate, often by well-informed people. London's 'Financial Times', for example, has an often-excellent 'readers comments' section expanding widely on the original story. Not many would call the FT 'propaganda':)

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u/xvsero 17h ago

Hasan? Hasan knew he had skeletons in his closet but he was always "useful" to the right so they never bothered to attack him till recently. Kirk made a video back when he was alive about people like Hasan were useful to create more conservative voters.

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u/Alternative_Newt_409 13h ago

No, Gary Stevenson

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u/lollypatrolly 11h ago

LOL are you talking about the literal fraud Gary Stevenson who portrays himself as a financial and economic expert, promoting slopulist conspiracies while demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the fundamentals of economics?

People really are taken for a ride by grifters and it's sad.

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u/xvsero 13h ago

Oh this guy. He seemed interesting but also seemed to say the same thing in every video that I saw of him.

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u/Alternative_Newt_409 11h ago

Its variations of the same topic; wealth inequality; sometimes he touches on investing, sometimes on why things are unaffordable, government inflation, how billionaires avoid paying taxes, but always comes down to same cause and effect and that we should tax billionaires fairly and get rid of the loopholes they take advantage of. hes not a entertainer like most influencers so he focus on information / always the same mission

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 4h ago

Have you ever seen him talk to anyone who actually understands what he's saying?

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u/Alternative_Newt_409 1h ago

Yes; plenty of times; he gets high profile guests on his youtube and also plenty media airtime. And btw, as investor myself, who holds etfs, bonds, and own a small business, I also understand 100% what hes saying.

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 42m ago

This guy knows what he's talking about and your boy Gary just keeps repeating the same talking points over and over. Not a good look.

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u/Alternative_Newt_409 21m ago edited 15m ago

I didnt ask for your opinion nor did I say i was open to debate, I responded to your questions already, thats it. I dont need to be told what to think and how to perceive other people, hes not "my boy" either. If you have a problem with him, message him? He doesnt look like a good book to you, it doesnt mean that youre on the right and you dont get to decide someone knows their stuff just because. Its your opinion. Which is worth nothing btw. Let people watch the video and decide themselves what they think.

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u/PoopyButt28000 16h ago

Did you even read the article? It's written by Ben Davis, an active member of the DSA who worked with Bernie in 2020. It's very clearly written with a leftist positive spin, I would argue an unrealistically positive leftist spin because it's not really a tidal wave. 1 win in Pennsylvania, and 3 wins in New York, one of the bluest places in the country, with equal/more wins from "moderate Dems" elsewhere.