Ted Rall: Corporate News Media: Don't Vote for Trump's Racist Lies, Vote for Someone Else's Racist Lies

Ted Rall writes that Corporate News Media: Don’t Vote for Trump’s Racist Lies, Vote for Someone Else’s Racist Lies.

The third problem with the “Trump bad” narrative is that, getting rid of a toxic strain in politics requires pumping up its alternative. This, the Times and other corporate media outlets never do.

There are hundreds of American newspapers. Not a single one ever runs an opinion essay by a communist, much less hires one as a columnist. Given that 11% of Americans are communist, 11% of published opinions should be pro-communist — and would be, if we had a free press.

There are hundreds of major broadcast and online news and politics outlets. None employ a self-identified socialist. 36% of Americans are socialist.

Communists, socialists and anarchists are the only major ideologies unequivocally opposed to the racist and Latinophobic and Islamophobic garbage Trump (and most other Republican candidates, and some Democrats) are spewing. Anyone who is serious about taking on this crap must support the real left.

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Rall is mistaking a positive view of something as being an active supporter of it. Having a favourable view of Socialism does not make one a Socialist.

The reason that Communists, socialists and anarchists are…unequivocally opposed to the racist and Latinophobic and Islamophobic garbage is that we want to build an inclusive society that is richer and fairer for all of us. We do this because of where we want to end up.

Rall forgets Malcolm X's dictum:

You cannot have Capitalism without Racism.

If yoy want to get rid of racism, you have to get rid of Capitalism.

This causes real agnst for liberals as they want to keep Capitalism, but do not want the rancidness of Racism permeating their nice, clean lives.